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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:	DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:	Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:	SMURF::DENHAM

Created:	Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	10068
Total number of notes:	35879

9970.0. "Question re Unix V4.0 and tftp" by NETCAD::MORRISON (Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570) Wed May 28 1997 15:03

  I am just now learning to use Digital Unix V4.0, after having used V3.2
for a while.
  I'm having trouble setting up as a tftp remote host. My instructions,
which were written for V3.2, say to de-comment the line in /etc/inetd.conf
that references tftpd and reboot. This works. However, my notes also say
that any file I write to via tftp must be in the directory denoted in the
last two columns of the inetd.conf table. The table says "/usr/sbin/tftpd"
and "tftpd/ tmp". The directory says that tftpd under /usr/sbin is a file,
not a directory. I don't know how to proceed from here.
  Is there anyone here who is an expert on this? This is beyond the expertise
of my group.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
9970.1	Did you read the man pages?	NNTPD::"[email protected]"	Brian Haley	`Wed May 28 1997 17:18`	16
	Hi, Did you read any of the man pages to see if they changed - I don't think they did. You might look at tftpd and inetd for starters. Basically, configure it exactly as your 3.2 machine (you did keep the config files, right?). Are you trying to do RIS or just tftp? Running with debug turned on (-d) or using tcpdump to get traces would be a good start if you're trying to debug a problem. For future reference, you didn't have to reboot for inetd.conf changes to take effect. Just edit the file and 'kill -HUP' the inetd pid, causing it to re-read the file. -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
9970.2		CECMOW::RAIKO		`Thu May 29 1997 03:49`	5
	The string should contain "tftpd /tmp" instead of "tftpd/ tmp" in order to allow access to /tmp. Regards, Gleb.
9970.3		NETCAD::MORRISON	Bob M. LKG2-A/R5 226-7570	`Thu May 29 1997 12:53`	14
	Thanks for your help so far. Re .2, the filename is as you said; I entered it wrong here. Thanks for the pointer re not needing to reboot. > config files, right?). Are you trying to do RIS or just tftp? Just tftp. > Running > with debug turned on (-d) or using tcpdump to get traces would be a > good start if you're trying to debug a problem. For now, I'm only trying to open a tftp-writeable file. That is, I need to know that the file is tftp-writeable so I can rule that out as the cause of the problem in case the next attempt to tftp fails.