From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 18:18:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6480437BAE5 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA29467; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:18:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <00b301bfa4e6$2489b0a0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Jerry Lei" , Subject: Re: change the greeting of FTP server Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:18:09 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >When I install FreeBSD, I setup the ftp server. But I put the wrong greeting >message when asking me to write it during installation. >How could I change a welcome message of ftp server? Thanks. From 'man 8 ftpd': ...If the file /etc/ftpwelcome exists, ftpd prints it before issuing the ``ready'' message. If the file /etc/ftpmotd exists, ftpd prints it after a successful login. Note the motd file used is the one relative to the login environment. This means the one in ~ftp/etc in the anonymous user's case. --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message