TFTP booting problem

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Dec 7 11:10:55 CET 2004


On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:24:22AM -0800, Paul English wrote:
> > what do the server's logfiles tell ? especially if you switch the tftpd into
> > verbose mode (append -v to the inetd.conf line to increase verbosity).
> 
> Without -v previously, daemon.log reported: 
> 
> Dec  6 11:19:04 cerberos inetd[181]: ftp/udp: unknown service
> 
> at approximately the time of attempt. However, this is tftp not ftp, so 
> I'm not sure what that is about. 

well, if you look at your inetd.conf line, you try to teach inetd how to do
ftp via udp ;)


> /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -V
> tftp-hpa 0.28, with remap, with tcpwrappers
> 
> inetd.conf:
> #tftp           dgram   udp     wait    root  /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /var/ftpd
> ftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -v -s /boot/fai
  ^^^ shouldn't this be tftp ?

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c u
henning



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