Subject: Re: banner

From: "Vu Q. Nguyen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 16:36:07 -0700 (PDT)

Bob,

Thanks for the response.  I got the banner to work...didn't realize
the path for the banner path had to be the full back relative to /.

Thanks,
Vu

> From [email-masked] Sat May  3 09:51:59 1997
> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 10:19:48 -0700
> From: [email-masked] (Bob Hardy)
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: banner
> 
> Howdy!
> 
> > Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:34:30 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: "Vu Q. Nguyen" <[email-masked]>
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> > Could someone please tell me what file contains the banner and where this
> > file should be deployed?
> 
> > I've tryed ~ftp/welcome.msg and ~ftp/etc/welcome.msg.  Both don't work.
> 
> What's in your ftpaccess file?  Mine contains:
> 
>    message /welcome.msg            login
>    message .message                cwd=*
> 
> ...and my ~ftp/welcome.msg works fine when users login.  Of course, if
> your ftpd isn't invoked with the "-a" option, it won't READ the
> ftpaccess file, and it doesn't matter what's in it!  :^)
> 
>                                 -- Bob
> 
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