| $ ftp myftpserver.whatever
Connected to myftpserver.whatever. 500 FTP server shut down (going down at Wed Dec 11 20:05:15 2002) -- please try again later. |
See if you have a file called /etc/shutmsg. If you do, delete it, and the server should let you in.
This is a ProFTPD FAQ (http://proftpd.linux.co.uk/docs/faq/linked/faq-ch4.html#AEN446).
