Re: consistent tftpboot directory location
- To: debian-policy@lists.debian.org, joeyh@debian.org
- Cc: tftpd@packages.debian.org, atftpd@packages.debian.org, tftpd-hpa@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: consistent tftpboot directory location
- From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org (va, manoj)>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 19:19:14 -0600
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- In-reply-to: <20041210214501.GA14915@kitenet.net> (Joey Hess's message of "Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:45:01 -0500")
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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.
> Thoughts on making this policy? I imagine we'd have to make sure not
> to break existing systems that use the current defaults.
Anyone care to work out such a plan, and provide wording for
policy such that we migrate to using /src/tftpd?
manoj
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