[geeks] tftp server

Mike Meredith mike at blackhairy.demon.co.uk
Thu Apr 10 15:27:21 CDT 2003


On Thursday 10 April 2003 7:15 pm, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> Nono, if I start in.tftpd by itself with the -l (standalone) option,
> it doesn't open the port.  When I setup inetd to listen on the port
> the port opens, but in.tftpd doesn't respond.  inetd is certainly
> working as it's supposed to - in.tftpd is what's not working.

I once remember that the only way I managed to get tftpd to work was to 
write a shell script that inetd would start, which would in turn start 
tftpd. I did think that tftpd servers just hated me, but it looks like 
they're pretty nasty to everyone.


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