5. Fedora Core 4 TFTP - Permission denied (Jay Isaacs)

[Leonid Flaks]

Jay,
tftp is not capable of creating new files. In order to put a file on a 
server you need to create an empty file first:
touch newfile.txt

Then you can put a real file with that name.

Hope that helps,

Leon

>
> This should be a relatively simple task buy I just can’t get it 
> working. TFTP get from the server work fine but a put just results in 
> a permission denied. Any thought on this issue. Here are my current 
> configuration items.
>
> drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 4096 Mar 30 09:20 tftpboot
>
> [root at watcher /]# ll -r tftpboot/
>
> total 8
>
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Mar 30 08:41 ls.txt
>
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody root 0 Mar 30 08:41 foo.txt
>
> [root at watcher /]#
>
> [root at watcher xinetd.d]# cat tftp
>
> service tftp
>
> {
>
> disable = no
>
> socket_type = dgram
>
> protocol = udp
>
> wait = yes
>
> user = root
>
> server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
>
> server_args = -s -c -v -v -v /tftpboot
>
> per_source = 11
>
> cps = 100 2
>
> flags = IPv4
>
> }
>
> **Jay**
>