Thank you to: Chris Pinnock, William D Hathaway, and Dave Miner. The problem was: I would like to run /usr/sbin/in.tftp in standalone mode, something that does not seem to be supported in Solaris !? Has anyone succeeded in doing that ? The reason why I don't want to go through inetd is for process monitoring purposes. I would like a cluster agent to start TFTP in standalone mode, monitor the process (need a PID for the process which must be up and running/listening all the time), stop the process when requested, and of course to fail it over if needed. I have so far disable TFTP from inetd.conf and tried to start it manually just like I did for the FTP daemon. But TFTP does not stay up, only for a while, and dies if no connection is to be served. Here are the answers: ====== Right, because it needs a helper program (such as inetd) to pass it the socket connection information. ====== ====== Hi, one option is to create another inetd.conf file such as /some/path/tftp_only_inet.conf that *only* has the tftp entry in it and then have your cluster software run inetd -s /some/path/tftp_only_inet.conf another alternative is to download a different tftp server, such as the one available in the GNU inetutils package ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.4.2.tar.gz which I think runs standalone, or you could at least have the option of editing the source code if it doesn't. There are probably many other variations of tftp servers available. ====== And the one which works just fine for me: ====== There is an undocumented and unsupported standalone option, "-S". No guarantees that it'll work, but the code is there. ====== /Pascal _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Aug 20 12:15:36 2004
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