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Title: How to change your FTP welcome message
Post by: byte on June 18, 2003, 08:42:11 PM

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

Title: Re: How to change your FTP welcome message
Post by: Mick on June 19, 2003, 06:52:56 AM

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

Title: Re: How to change your FTP welcome message
Post by: Nathan Fowler on June 19, 2003, 09:39:41 PM

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

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

Hope this helped,
Nathan

Title: Re: How to change your FTP welcome message
Post by: Charlie Brady on June 20, 2003, 10:07:06 PM

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