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by **Kurt Cyphe** » Fri, 14 Mar 1997 04:00:00

I recently set up an anonymous FTP account on our Solaris 2.3 server at
work, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to display a
welcome message when the user logs in, like I've seen done on various FTP
sites I've been to. I figure I'm probably missing something obvious, but
have no idea what.

Thanks.
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Kurt Cypher

Computer Programmer/System Administrator by day,
Actor by night.

by **Piotr Klaba** » Sat, 15 Mar 1997 04:00:00

The standard FTPD seems to not support this behaviour.
You should download&compile&install&kill-9 oldftpd&run wu-ftpd
Look for wu-ftpd in the archie near you.

Piotr Klaban

Quote:> I recently set up an anonymous FTP account on our Solaris 2.3 server at
> work, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to display a
> welcome message when the user logs in, like I've seen done on various FTP
> sites I've been to. I figure I'm probably missing something obvious, but
> have no idea what.

> Thanks.

by **Jeffrey J Libm** » Wed, 02 Apr 1997 04:00:00

i have the following 2 lines in my /etc/ftpaccess file:

message /welcome.msg login
message .message cwd=*

then i have a file called welcome.msg in the root directory of my ftp
file syst.

hope this helps.

cheers,
jeff

>I recently set up an anonymous FTP account on our Solaris 2.3 server at
>work, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to display a
>welcome message when the user logs in, like I've seen done on various FTP
>sites I've been to. I figure I'm probably missing something obvious, but
>have no idea what.

>Thanks.
>--
>Kurt Cypher

>Computer Programmer/System Administrator by day,
>Actor by night.

by **Paul Whittenbu** » Wed, 02 Apr 1997 04:00:00

You need to run wu-ftp to be able to use the ftpaccess file that Jeffrey describes.
You also need to start ftpd with the "-a" option in inetd.conf to read ftpaccess.

> i have the following 2 lines in my /etc/ftpaccess file:

> message /welcome.msg login
> message .message cwd=*

> then i have a file called welcome.msg in the root directory of my ftp
> file syst.

> hope this helps.

> cheers,
> jeff

> >I recently set up an anonymous FTP account on our Solaris 2.3 server at
> >work, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to display a
> >welcome message when the user logs in, like I've seen done on various FTP
> >sites I've been to. I figure I'm probably missing something obvious, but
> >have no idea what.

> >Thanks.
> >--
> >Kurt Cypher

> >Computer Programmer/System Administrator by day,
> >Actor by night.

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by **Matus Uhl** » Thu, 03 Apr 1997 04:00:00

-> >I recently set up an anonymous FTP account on our Solaris 2.3 server at
-> >work, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get it to display a
-> >welcome message when the user logs in, like I've seen done on various FTP
-> >sites I've been to. I figure I'm probably missing something obvious, but
-> >have no idea what.

-> i have the following 2 lines in my /etc/ftpaccess file:

-> message /welcome.msg login
-> message .message cwd=*

-> then i have a file called welcome.msg in the root directory of my ftp
-> file syst.

Yes, but you should have wu-ftpd installed for that...
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