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From: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.snybuf.edu>
To: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>
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Subject: Re: wu-ftp: ftpmotd nologin ftpwelcome
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Yes, I invoke it with -a in inetd.conf. Right now I am running it through
tcpd, but it does the same thing if it is invoked as ftpd. I guess I'll
just keep playing around with it.

Thanks,
Dave 


On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Omar Thameen wrote:

> Did you invoke it with "ftpd -a" so that it reads the ftpaccess
> file in /etc/inetd.conf?
> 
> Omar
> 
> On Sat, Aug 02, 1997 at 02:00:26PM -0400, Dave Hummel wrote:
> > 
> > The ftpd man page isn't helping on this one. ftpd seems to be ignoring 
> > ftpaccess, nologin, and ftpwelcome. It seems to me they were all working
> > when I first installed them, but they won't work now even after a
> > re-install. I'm having no problem with ftpconversions or ftpusers. I tried
> > the problematic ones in /etc/ and /local/etc.
> > 
> > Any ideas from those of you who have it working?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
>