tftp daemon won't start
2007-12-25 10:12:00
Alan Hill <ahill@lanser.net>
John Mendenhall <jem@electriciti.com>
Larry Chin <larry@ca.cch.com>
Shaun McGee <smcgee@helios.r07lab.epa.gov>
Benjamin Cline <benji@hnt.com>
Neil Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
Scott Turvey <scottt@nacm.com>
Nikos George <george@pop.psu.edu>
Karlheinz Pischke <kpischke@cadence.com>
Mike Garcia <mike.garcia@sunman.chinalake.navy.mil>
It appears that there is a bug in the "add new host" command in
admintool. Out of desperation I tried to boot the new machines
over the net, even though I had this weird warning ( I call it error ).
Guess what, all of the machines booted. All I did was type "boot net"
and let the process begin.
After browsing all of the replies ( again many thanks ) the general
consensus was that "tftpd" didn't start until called on to do so.
A couple of people suggested an workaround found in Casper Dik's
solaris FAQ. I don't know where this is located on the net however,
here is the gist of the FAQ.
mkdir /tftpboot/dev
mknod /tftpboot/dev/udp c 11 41
chmod 755 /tftpboot/dev; chmod 666 /tftpboot/dev/udp
I have not tried this.
Special thanks to all who replied... Original posting follows...
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Hi all,
I am trying to install Solaris 2.4 on several Sparc-4's over the
network. I have followed the procedures in the "Installing Solaris
Software" book and have loaded the OS to disk ( install server ).
I am in the process of creating a new host entry using the
admintool. I enabled the remote install option, as I am going to
boot ( initially ) over the net.
Now my problem...
When I click the add host button, I get the following notice:
The operation completed successfully.
Important !
Daemon in.tftpd on server myserver is not responding even though it is
enabled in file /etc/inet/inetd.conf in support of diskless booting.
Resolve the problem before attempting to network boot any client from
server myserver for either diskless operation or remote software
installation.
Shown below is entry from my services file.
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tftp 69/udp
Shown below is entry in /etc/inet/inetd.conf for tftp
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# Tftp service is provided primarily for booting. Most sites run this
# only on machines acting as "boot servers."
#
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
Directory /tftpboot exists as does /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
I rebooted the server this morning to see if I could get this daemon
running, however a "ps -ef | grep tftp" returns nothing.
Can anybody help me get this "tftpd" daemon started?
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