Topic: How to change your FTP welcome message

[byte]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to change the welcome message say after someone logs in with username and password, you have a message saying Welcome to bla bla bla.....

Thanks in advance

Byte

[Mick]

Edit /var/ftp/welcome.msg and then restart the ftp server.

[Nathan Fowler]

Since proftpd runs from xinetd, you'll need to restart xinetd.

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

Hope this helped,
Nathan

[Charlie Brady]

Nathan Fowler wrote:
 
> Since proftpd runs from xinetd, you'll need to restart xinetd.
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart

Not so. proftpd will see its new configuration when next someone connects.

Charlie