Re: consistent tftpboot directory location

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org (va, manoj)>]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:02:56 +0100, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> said: 

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 07:19:14PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:45:01 -0500, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
>> said:
>> 
>> > There seems to be no consistency in debian about the default
>> > directory used by tftpd servers. I've tried all three:
>> 
>> > server directory tftpd /boot atftpd /tftpboot tftpd-hpa
>> > /var/lib/tftpboot
>> 
>> > It would be easier to try out different servers if they all used
>> > the same directory by default. It would also be nice if that
>> > directory was FHS compliant, which at least /tftpboot is not. I
>> > don't know if /boot is; /var/lib/tftpboot is fine.
>> 
>> Seems like /srv/tftpd is the consensus.

> Rather /srv/tftp ? (like /srv/ftp, /srv/www,/src/cvs) ?

	I have no objection to /srv/tftp. So, anyone want to volunteer
 to write up the policy snippet? We should start, perhaps, by
 recommending the location, unless someone persuades the three
 packages to use /srv/tftp first, in which case it can be a should
 directive. 

	manoj
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