Re: help! help! help!

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Minervini Luigi wrote:

> Sorry but I'm a brand new Linux user, so I'm really in trouble!!
> 
> I need to configure a tftp server to download a configuration image from a
> remote router. 
> The following is the tftp configuration file (included in xinetd.conf):
> 
> #       protocol.  The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \
> #       workstations, download configuration files to network-aware
> printers, \
> #       and to start the installation process for some operating systems.
> service tftp
> {
>         socket_type          = dgram
>         protocol                = udp
>         wait                      = yes
>         user                     = nobody
>         log_on_success   += USERID
>         log_on_failure       += USERID
>         server                   = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
>         server_args           = in.tftpd
> #       disable                 = yes
> }

> When I try to download the router cofiguration to the Linux machine via
> tftp, I get the following error message:
> 
> TFTP: error code 2 received - Access violation
> 
> %Error opening tftp:// 156.54.2.42/gwtmp1-confg (Undefined error)  
> 
You have to specify the directory in which tftp is allowed to have file
access to. In inetd.conf, it is:
tftp            dgram   udp     wait    nobody  /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /tftpboot

so try to add /<dirfortftptooperate> to server_args.

Greetz,
Sebastiaan