[syslinux] tftpd-hpa does not fork

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Sep 25 11:03:25 PDT 2002


Christian Hoefer wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i try to get this tsize capable tftpd running,
> but it doesn't fork. (as read the strace output
> and the process table)
> 
> strace:
> 
> 9122  execve("/usr/sbin/in.tftpd", ["/usr/sbin/in.tftpd", "-u", 
> "nobody", "-s", "/var/tftpboot/"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0

Did you run it this way from the commant line?  If so, then no 
surprise... you didn't specify -l so it thinks it's being run from inetd.

	-hpa





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