[13437] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.7R: tftpd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard E Covert)
Fri Apr 21 05:09:47 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 05:09:37 EDT
From: Howard E Covert <hecovert@MIT.EDU>
System name: rca-sun
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.7R (5 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Trying to use the sun as a font server for X-boxes.
These devices use tftp to access the fonts
What's wrong:
Basically, the daemon does NOT work according to the man pages
What should have happened:
We modified the inetd.conf files to turn on the tftpd.
According to the man pages, the fonts to be accessed need to be placed
in the "home" directory of tftp - /tftpd
In this directory, tftpd should create a file "lock" - which contains
the pid of the daemon - if alive.
Despite the changes, no such file is created; the daemon is not started
and the daemon dies if started manually - all w/o creating the "lock"
file
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
man tftpd and man tftp
