[updated]gentoo ftp service start

[jzoudavy]

Hi experts

I recently took over a gentoo box. It is suppose to have ftp pppoe and dhcp installed on it already. I can see pppoe and dhcp related files on it already, so I am sure these two installed. But the ftp I am stumped. I found it under here:

/etc/init.d/in.tftpd start
* Starting tftpd ...
but when I try to start it it fails and I can see, from /var/log/messages
in.tftpd[27795]: no -s directory

has anyone seens this before?

[jzoudavy]

server i guess. I found the ftp daemon is already installed, but i still can't ftp to the gentoo box nor start ftp for some reason.

[John R. Graham]

Looks like it was never set up. Take a look at the service configuration file, "/etc/conf.d/in.tftpd". You can see in there how the -s parameter is set.

A couple of Cliff Notes for you as well:

• To see what package owns a file, use equery. For instance,

  Code:

  equery belongs /etc/init.d/in.tftpd

• The emerge command is the main interface to Portage, Gentoo's package manager. Just one example,

  Code:

  emerge -s tftp

  which finds all tftp related packages in the package repository.

Hope this helps.

- John
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