Configuring and Managing MPE/iX Internet Services (August 2002)

Chapter 5

TFTP Service

Troubleshooting tftpd

The following error messages may be generated by TFTP and logged with the syslog facility, if it is enabled.

Implementation Differences

The implementation of tftpd on the HP e3000 differs from tftpd on the HP 9000 in three ways:

• On HP-UX, tftpd is usually run as root. On MPE/iX, it is usually run as USER.TFTP.

• On HP-UX, tftpd checks if the user tftp can write to or read the file. On MPE, tftpd checks if the user

specified in its configuration file can write to or read the file. If you configure tftpd as recommended in

this chapter, USER.TFTP will be specified in the configuration file and tftpd will check the same user.

• On MPE/iX, the tftp user is configurable and it is not on HP-UX. As a result, on MPE/iX tftpd looks at

the file relative to the home directory of whichever user is specified in the inetd configuration file. On

HP-UX, inetd always looks at the file relative to the home directory of the tftp user.

Message Explanation

Unknown option

ignored

An invalid option was specified in the tftpd arguments. Remove or

correct the arguments and restart tftpd.

Invalid total

time-out

The value given for the -T option was either not a number or was a

negative number. Correct the value and restart tftpd.

Invalid

retransmission

time-out

The value for the -R option was either not a number or was a negative

number. Correct the value and restart tftpd.

system

call<$Isystem

call>:…

The system call specified in the message failed. The reason for failure is

explained in the error message appended to the system call name in its

documentation.