line-banner 1 user commands nosh line-bannerchain-load utility for printing 1-line banners line-banner --NVT banner next-prog line-banner is a chain-loading utility that prints the 1-line banner banner (followed by a newline) to its standard output, and then chain loads to next-prog with the execvp3 function. next-prog may contain its own command line options, which line-banner will ignore. line-banner makes no alteration to process state. If the --NVT command-line option is used, the newline follows the Network Virtual Terminal convention of carriage return plus a linefeed. Normally, it follows the Unix convention of just a linefeed. The following nosh1 script wraps the ftpd1 server from the publicfile package, which requires that the initial 220 response be written before the dæmon is invoked. #!/bin/nosh fdmove -c 2 1 envuidgid publicfile softlimit -o 20 -d 50000 tcp-socket-listen -b 2 0 80 tcp-socket-accept -v -c 2 -x cdb.tcp -l 0 --no-delay line-banner --NVT "220 Features: a p ." sh -c 'exec ftpd ~publicfile/public' This is the sh1 equivalent: #!/bin/sh -e exec 2<>&1 \ envuidgid publicfile \ softlimit -o 20 -d 50000 \ tcp-socket-listen -b 2 0 80 \ tcp-socket-accept -v -c 2 -x cdb.tcp -l 0 --no-delay \ line-banner --NVT '220 Features: a p .' \ ftpd ~publicfile/public Jonathan de Boyne Pollard