New directory for tftpd and FAI files?

william Famy william.famy at laposte.net
Tue Sep 22 16:06:50 CEST 2009


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Thomas Lange a écrit :
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[wf:]

I think there is no pb to set tftpd root to /srv/tftp/fai

I think it is helpfull to have fai in dir name when configure fai.

So /srv/tftp/fai is ok for me just have to change the /etc/default/tftp
file.

regards.


> Hi all,
> 
> with squeeze, the tftp daemon can only be run in daemon mode.
> The default root directory for tftpd will be /srv/tftp.
> 
> Currently in FAI we change the root directory of tftpd from
> /var/lib/tftpboot to /srv/tftp/fai, this is done in inetd.conf by
> default.
> 
> I'm thinking about different possibilities how to handle that for
> squeeze.
> 
> 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.

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