[syslinux] Suggested patch for tftphpa

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Feb 16 12:32:42 PST 2007


Andrew Benham wrote:
> We use tftp to upload, on a daily basis, our switch configuration
> files.
> 
> Therefore it is useful if we can use the remapper in in.tftpd from
> tftphpa to remap the filenames to include the current date.  This
> means that we can configure the switches to upload the file
> 'config', and actually store 'config-192.168.0.1-20070217'
> 
> We use a mapfile which includes:
> 
> Pre config.* \0-\i-\d
> 
> where we have added code to handle '\d'.  That code is attached as
> a patch file.

Interesting idea.  However, it might be worthwhile to make it possible 
to override the default date string.  I'm kind of thinking something like:

	\d{...}

... where "..." is a strftime pattern.  That way it would work for 
people with other requirements.  However, it would require more changes.

	-hpa




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