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From: wjw@ebs.eb.ele.tue.nl (Willem Jan Withagen)
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Subject: Re: Adding a motd to anon ftp
Keywords: ftpd sources
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Date: 1 Feb 91 10:38:15 GMT
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In article <^?#&8Q$@rpi.edu> kyriazis@iear.arts.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
>In article <1155@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> ifarqhar@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) writes:
>>I have noticed, when using anonymous ftp to other sites, that some systems
>>present a motd-like message when you log into them.  Checking the ftpd

>From what I know, you have to alter the source code to do that; provided
>you do have source, of course..

You can get the sources at {blizzard,ocf}.berkely.edu. And you might want 
to get hold of the RFC959 which describes the protocol used for ftp.
I'll require some tries before you've got this one working.

You might also care to look at the one i've patched up:
	ftp.eb.ele.tue.nl(131.155.2.25): /pub/apollo/myftpd.tar.v34.Z

Ciao,
	Willem Jan Withagen.

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