On 9/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Davide Grandis</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:davide.grandis@fastwebnet.it">davide.grandis@fastwebnet.it</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br><br>I&#39;m trying to setup a TFTP server to serve as repository for the<br>config of all my Cisco network devices.<br><br>As per the the tftpd man, I&#39;ve added the &quot;-c&quot; option into the /etc/<br>xinetd.d
/tftp (as follows) but I still cannot get write access<br>(unless the file is already present).<br><br>[root@chl1 ~]# cd /etc/xinetd.d<br>[root@chl1 xinetd.d]# cat tftp<br># default: off<br># description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file
<br>transfer \<br>#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; protocol.&nbsp;&nbsp;The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \<br>#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; workstations, download configuration files to network-aware<br>printers, \<br>#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and to start the installation process for some operating
<br>systems.<br>service tftp<br>{<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; disable = no<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; socket_type&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = dgram<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; protocol&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= udp<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; wait&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= no<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; user&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= root
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= /usr/sbin/in.tftpd<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; server_args&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = -s -c /tftpboot<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; per_source&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;= 11<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; cps&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = 100 2<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; flags&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = IPv4
<br>}<br><br>And here is it concerning the home path owner &amp; permissions:<br><br>[root@chl1 /]# ls -la<br>...<br>drwxrwxrwx&nbsp;&nbsp; 2 root root&nbsp;&nbsp;4096 Sep 13 10:18 tftpboot<br>...<br>[root@chl1 /]# ls -la tftpboot/<br>drwxrwxrwx&nbsp;&nbsp;2 root&nbsp;&nbsp; root&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4096 Sep 13 10:18 .
<br>drwxr-xr-x 25 root&nbsp;&nbsp; root&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4096 Sep 13 17:48 ..<br>-rwxrwxrwx&nbsp;&nbsp;1 nobody nobody 1811552 Sep 12 10:28 c3500xl-c3h2s-mz.<br>120-5.WC17.bin<br>-rwxrwxrwx&nbsp;&nbsp;1 nobody nobody&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1181 Sep 13 17:51 pippo.config<br><br>(pippo.config
 = fake file)<br><br>This is what I get at the TFTP client side:<br><br>LabTI-Infra-3524XL-01#copy running-config tftp:<br>Address or name of remote host []? <a href="http://10.58.2.204">10.58.2.204</a><br>Destination filename [labti-infra-3524xl-01-confg]?
<br>TFTP: error code 1 received - File not found<br><br>%Error opening tftp://10.58.2.204/labti-infra-3524xl-01-confg<br>(Undefined error)<br><br>LabTI-Infra-3524XL-01#<br>LabTI-Infra-3524XL-01#copy running-config tftp:<br>
Address or name of remote host []? <a href="http://10.58.2.204">10.58.2.204</a><br>Destination filename [labti-infra-3524xl-01-confg]? pippo.config<br>!!<br>2327 bytes copied in 0.831 secs<br><br>So, it means that the TFTP client can only *re-write* an existing
<br>file but not creating new ones, and this is the expected behavior if<br>the &quot;-c&quot; parameter is omitted!<br><br>What am I missing?<br><br>Any suggestion really appreciated!<br><br>TIA,<br>Davide<br><br></blockquote>
</div><br><br>I had this same problem when trying to back up my switch configs.&nbsp; After some googling, I found a workaround for RH-based systems.&nbsp; The workaround is disable tftp in xinetd, and run in.tftpd manually.&nbsp; I never figured out why it would not work with xinetd.
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