Re: atfptd in squeeze won't do anything

[Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.productions@gmail.com>]

On 24/08/11 01:24, Isaac Freeman wrote:
> I have been beating my head against the wall on this for a day and a
> half. I just installed atftpd (0.7.dfsg-9.1) on Squeeze. When I first
> installed it, it wouldn't take connections through the default inetd
> stuff. So I tried editing /etc/default/atftpd and setting
> USE_INETD=false and running it as a daemon. Still nothing. So I tried
> manually running /usr/sbin/atftpd, and no matter what options I give it
> (including none) it just prints the usage and exits, unless I specify
> --daemon and/or --no-fork in which case it just exits with an exit code
> 0 and there is no process running or anything listening on that port.
>
> Please, any ideas, reports or similar (or even different) behavior, or
> any thing else would be greatly appreciated. This is driving me crazy.
> And I can't seem to find any recent howtos on the subject, they all seem
> to be several years old, or they say basically "apt-get it, and it
> should work".
>
> Also, I tried getting tftpd-hpa working too with similar problems, but I
> haven't done as extensive of troubleshooting on that.
>
> --
> Isaac Freeman - Systems Administrator
> IBM Information Protection Services
> isaac@us.ibm.com
> 919-254-0245

I've only ever used tftp for pxe servers - deprecated with gpxe (http is 
much faster and simpler) - if that's what you want to use tftp for 
you'll find tftpd-hpa much simpler to configure.

What permissions do you have on the directory being served??

Have you set up:-
/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
??

If you can tell me a little more about what you want to use tftp for 
more it may be helpful.

Cheers

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