Adding helpful information The (Email web hosting) FTP service on your
Adding helpful information The FTP service on your Red Hat Linux computer is set up to automatically display messages and to alert the user of the existence of README files at different times in a user s navigation of your site. When FTP is installed, however, none of these files exist. So to help the navigation of your site, you need to create these files. Creating README files A README file is a standard method of providing information about the contents of a software package or, in this case, the contents of an FTP directory. Your FTP server is set up, by default, to alert users to the existence of README files when they either log in or change into a directory that contains a README file. Here are the entries in the /etc/ftpaccess file that make this happen: readme README* login readme README* cwd=* The asterisk at the end of README indicates that any files that begin with the word README are matched (such as README.info, README-help, or README.txt). The README file is usually in plain text, so anyone can read it. You can create one using any text editor. Add a README file to the /var/ftp directory (to describe the contents of the FTP server) or to any directory where you want to describe the contents to the user who enters. Users who enter a directory containing a README file will see a message that tells them that the README file is there. They have to open the file themselves to see the contents. Creating message files If you want to make sure that the users see a message when they log in or enter a particular directory, you can create welcome.msg and .message files. You can create those files using any text editor. Two entries in the /etc/ftpaccess file define how these message files are set up to be read: message /welcome.msg login message .message .cwd=* You can create a welcome.msg in the FTP user s root directory (probably /var/ftp for anonymous users). It should be a plain-text message. It will appear when the user first logs in to your FTP server. In each directory, you can create a .message file. When users enter that directory, the contents of the .message file are displayed. As with the welcome.msg file, the .message file should be in plain text. Changing FTP login greetings When users log in to your FTP server, they see several standard greetings. You can change what greetings they see and what those greetings include by adding information to your /etc/ftpaccess file. Changing the initial greeting If you don’t change anything, a user who logs in to your FTP server won’t see that much information. The default greeting when a user logs into your FTP server looks something like this: $ ftp maple Connected to maple. 220 maple FTP server (Version wu-2.6.1(1) Mon Dec 25 09:21:53 EDT 2000) ready. Name (maple:mike):
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