HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide (October 2009)

the file the client is reading has read permissions for the user tftp. For example, if the client
attempts to read the file xterm, xterm must have the permission 0400 and must be owned by
the user tftp.
$ ll /home/tftpdir/xterm
-r-------- 1 tftp guest 438 May 10 1989 xterm
During a put operation (which is not something a BOOTP client does as part of the BOOTP
protocol), an error message Access Violation, Permission Denied is displayed when a
file does not have write permission on the server to write to the file. If the server receives a file,
it must exist and be writeable by the user tftp. For example, if a tftp client is sending the file
named fontlist, the file must have permission 0600 and must be owned by tftp:
$ ll /home/tftpdir/fonts
Error Logging
This section explains the error messages that bootpd logs through syslogd. The following
logging levels are discussed in this section:
• “Information Log Level” (page 117)
• “Notice Log Level” (page 118)
• “Error Log Level” (page 118)
You must set the bootpd debug level for logging these messages. You can set bootpd debugging
level using the -d option.
Information Log Level
The following describes the messages logged at the syslogd information log level:
• exiting after time minutes of inactivity
If bootpd does not receive a bootrequest within time minutes (the timeout set with the -t
option), it issues this message and exits.
• reading configuration_file
reading new configuration_file
bootpd is reading or rereading the configuration information from the indicated
configuration_file.
• read number entries from configuration_file
Indicates that bootpd successfully read number configuration entries, including table
continuation entries, from the configuration_file.
• request from hardware address hardware_address
bootpd received a bootrequest from a client with the indicated hardware_address. This
message is logged at debug level 1.
• request from IP addr ip_address
bootpd received a bootrequest from a client with the indicated ip_address. This message
is logged at debug level 1.
• found ip_address hostname
bootpd located information for the specified client in its configuration database. This
message is logged at debug level 1.
• broadcasting reply on ip_address
Displays the broadcast address used by bootpd to reply to a client whose configuration
entry has the ba flag. This message is logged at debug level 2.
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