LinuxSA Mailing list archives

  From: Alex <lex@senet.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:45:04 +1030

NCD-X-Terminal

Hi,

I'm in the early stages of ploughing through a howto
for setting up an X-terminal. I've finally got the software and 
now it's time to get the thing working.....however <as always>...

This is an extract from the HOWTO:

=============================================================================================
In file inetd.conf, create or uncomment lines that refer to TFTP and
BootP. The final  argument of the tftpd entry in the example below is
the path
of the directory containing the files required by the X terminal.
Although directory names are not mandatory, for security reasons they
should
always be present as tftp access will then be restricted to files in
specified directories. 

>From a sample file /etc/inetd.conf: 

# 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/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
/usr/X11/lib/X11/ncd/
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/in.bootpd

=============================================================================================

Ok. I have copied all the software to /tftpboot and thus edited the line
in /etc/ined.conf to:

tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  in.tftpd
/tftpboot
bootps  dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/sbin/tcpd  bootpd

Upon a boot request by a remote host inetd <listening on a port
designated in /etc/services> is apparently meant to start the BootP
daemon specified in /etc/inetd.conf.

My question: I don't seem to have bootpd anywhere on my machine.
I did a "find" on it and nothing came up.

I am then told to edit /etc/bootptab...that also doesn't exist

I'm a bit vague on the whole thing because things aren't where they are
said to be eg
there is no such daemon in /usr/sbin/bootpd nor is there a file called
/etc/bootptab 

If anyone has set one of these up can you pretty please help me :-)

Cheers

-- 
Alex

-- 
LinuxSA WWW: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/  IRC: #linuxsa on irc.linux.org.au
To unsubscribe from the LinuxSA list:
  mail linuxsa-request@linuxsa.org.au with "unsubscribe" as the subject