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Hi there
Could anyone tell me if it's possible, and if it is, how to setup a welcome message on my ftp server? i've readed the man pages for ftp,ftpd,ftpaccess and came to no conclusion. this on HP-UX.
thanks for any help

The general instructions should be in the ftpd man page.

Specific configuration information can be found in the ftpd.conf man page.
example ftpd.conf entry from my BSD machine might look like this:

motd all ftpwelcome


The format being:
motd class [file]

Class info is found in the ftpd.conf man page and ftpusers file.

"ftpwelcome" in the example above is an option if you want to have a separate ftp login message than the standard terminal login "motd". You could create a file with a different name if you want to, and supply that name, but using either "motd" or "ftpwelcome" will make it easier to figure out if some one new has to manage your server while you are away (for whatever reason).
Of course, they could just check your ftpd.conf to figure it out though...

HP-UX ftpd configuration may be different, but I hope this is helpful.

Thanks, but that configuration doesn't work for me.
i don't even have a file ftpd.cong or it's man pages.
So far, i have found that in the file inetd.conf i can load the service with the options i need. One of them is to sart the ftp service from a configuration file called ftpaccess, where i can define any messages. The problem is, that would overide all the standard options, ftp has configured now. It will be a lot of work to check every option in the file, and i have to consider 120 diferent users, that use ftp in regular bases. I was just think that maybe there was a default message in some file, like the "Goodbye" when someone closes the ftp connection. But is it so? is there such file?