New directory for tftpd and FAI files?

[Henning Glawe]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
> 1) Use the new default path /srv/tftp for tfptd, so that no changes to
>    tftpd has to be done.
> 
>    a) Use the subdirectory /srv/tftp/fai for FAI files as before,
>       which means that fai-chboot and the dhcpd.conf entry for
>       pxelinux.0 also must add the prefix fai/ to all filenames.
> 
>    b) Put vmlinux*, initrd* files, pxelinux.0 and the pxelinux.cfg
>       subdirectoy under /srv/tftp, so no changes to dhcpd.conf and
>       fai-chboot has to be done.
> 
> 2) The user has to change the default path of tftpd to /srv/tftp/fai,
>    no other changes are needed. Currently the user is asked to do this
>    change in inetd.conf when tftpd is started from inetd.
> 
> I appreceate any suggestions and like to hear your opinion.

I vote for 1a: this way it would interfere the least with other tftp
configurations the user has and still nicely isolates everything related to
fai in one directory, as it is now...


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