[syslinux] tftp error

[richard turner]

problem resolved. i needed the libnss* files

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 15:25, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> richard turner wrote:
> > i did not have a /etc/nsswitch.conf file on my root fs. i copied one
> > over from another machine and tried my tftp client again. it still fails
> > with the same error:
> > tftp: tftp/udp: unknown service, faking it...
> > 
> > is there something special within the nsswitch.conf file that i need to
> > set? my nsswitch.conf file looks like the following (excluding comments)
> > 
> > passwd:		files nisplus
> > shadow:		files nisplus
> > group:		files nisplus
> > hosts:		files nisplus dns
> > bootparams:	nisplus [NOTFOUND=return] files
> > ethers:		files
> > netmasks:	files
> > networks:	files
> > protocols:	files nisplus
> > rpc:		files
> > services:	files nisplus
> > netgroup:	files nisplus
> > publickey: 	nisplus
> > automount:	files nisplus
> > aliases:	files nisplus
> > 
> "services: files" was what I was looking for.  If that doesn't work, it
> would seem you have some kind of error in your glibc... basically
> getservbyname() fails, so it uses the hard-coded default port number.
> 
> 	-hpa
> 
> 
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