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From: Todd Goodman <tsg@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a tftp server that works?
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 12:35:18
Message-Id: 20120508123126.GA4493@ns1.bonedaddy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Recommend a tftp server that works? by Grant Edwards
1 * Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> [120507 23:34]:
2 > Can somebody recommend a tftp server that works?
3 >
4 > I've got atftp installed and have been using the client for some time
5 > (after fixing a number of bugs).
6 >
7 > But, the atftpd server just plain refuses to do anything other than
8 > print out the help text and exit. It doesn't matter what options you
9 > specify or what root directory you give, it just prints the help text
10 > and exits. No error messages, just the help text and you're done.
11 >
12 > After having worked with the atftp client code, I have no desire to
13 > wade into the server code to try to fix it as well.
14 >
15 > But, when I try to install one of the other tftp servers, emerge
16 > refuses. How to I tell emerge to go ahead and install, for example,
17 > netkit-tftp even though atftp is already installed?
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20 I use tftp-hpa and it works well for me.
21
22 Todd