[SOLVED] installing atftp??

[mosol2005]

I'm trying to install atftp....I'm using following steps:
sudo aptitude install atftpd
sudo gedit /etc/default/atftpd
Change the following line

USE_INETD=true

to

USE_INETD=false

save and exit the file

sudo invoke-rc.d atftpd start
sudo mkdir /tftpboot

sudo chmod -R 777 /tftpboot

sudo chown -R nobody /tftpboot

sudo /etc/init.d/atftpd restart
sudo aptitude install atftp
touch /tftpboot/hda.txt

chmod 777 /tftpboot/hda.txt

ls -l /tftpboot/

total 0
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ruchi ruchi 223 hda.txt
atftp xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa
but after
tftp>put hda.txt

it says that:
time out:retrying...

what must I do?

[atreyu]

are you sure that atftpd has started successfully? it will fail silently, i've found.

check for it in ps, e.g.:

ps auxww|grep atftpd

you should also see it in the output of netstat, e.g.:

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -tulnp|grep atftpd
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69              0.0.0.0:*      6479/atftpd

if it is not running, check /var/log/messages for errors pertaining to it. on my system, i did have to supply existing user and group information, e.g.:

atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

of course, make sure the user and group you supply exist on your system (check /etc/passwd and /etc/group).

[mosol2005]

are you sure that atftpd has started successfully? it will fail silently, i've found.

check for it in ps, e.g.:

ps auxww|grep atftpd

you should also see it in the output of netstat, e.g.:

[root@localhost ~]# netstat -tulnp|grep atftpd
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69              0.0.0.0:*      6479/atftpd

if it is not running, check /var/log/messages for errors pertaining to it. on my system, i did have to supply existing user and group information, e.g.:

atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

of course, make sure the user and group you supply exist on your system (check /etc/passwd and /etc/group).

I performed " ps auxww|grep atftpd" and this is the out:
1000 2273 0.0 0.0 4212 764 pts/0 S+ 06:04 0:00 grep --color=auto atftpd
but after I performed "netstat -tulnp|grep atftpd"
I didn't receive any output

[mosol2005]

I could not perform the last line.....e.g:
atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

[atreyu]

I performed " ps auxww|grep atftpd" and this is the out:
1000 2273 0.0 0.0 4212 764 pts/0 S+ 06:04 0:00 grep --color=auto atftpd

that ps output says that no instance of atftp was found. only the "grep atftpd" that you piped the output of ps to was found.

but after I performed "netstat -tulnp|grep atftpd"
I didn't receive any output

and that netstat output says, also, that no instances of atftpd are listening on any local ports.

i think it is safe to say that your atftpd daemon is not starting at all.

[atreyu]

I could not perform the last line.....e.g:
atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

1. what is the exact error? is it, e.g.:

-bash: atftpd: command not found

2. are you running it as root (I guess with sudo)? if not, try:

sudo atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

but you need to know where atftpd is located, if it is not in root's path. it should be in /sbin or /usr/sbin.

also remember that you need to specify an existing user and group account in the atftpd command: don't assume user nobody and group nobody exist on your system.

[mosol2005]

1. what is the exact error? is it, e.g.:

-bash: atftpd: command not found

2. are you running it as root (I guess with sudo)? if not, try:

sudo atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

but you need to know where atftpd is located, if it is not in root's path. it should be in /sbin or /usr/sbin.

also remember that you need to specify an existing user and group account in the atftpd command: don't assume user nobody and group nobody exist on your system.

with sudo there is no error.actually there is no message.........

[atreyu]

okay, how about this then:

which atftpd

sudo which atftpd

find /bin /sbin/ /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type f -name atftpd

sudo dpkg -L atftpd

one of those has to work...

[mosol2005]

output of the following commands are the same:
which atftpd
find /bin /sbin/ /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type f -name atftpd
sudo which atftpd
and the output is:
/usr/sbin/atftpd

the output of the sudo dpkg -L atftpd is:
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/atftpd
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/FAQ.gz
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/README
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/TODO
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/copyright
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/README.CVS
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/README.MCAST
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/mtftp.conf
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/README.PCRE
/usr/share/doc/atftpd/pcre_pattern.txt
/usr/share/man
/usr/share/man/man8
/usr/share/man/man8/atftpd.8.gz
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/atftpd
/etc
/etc/init.d
/etc/init.d/atftpd
/usr/share/man/man8/in.tftpd.8.gz
/usr/sbin/in.tftpd

[atreyu]

sudo which atftpd
and the output is:
/usr/sbin/atftpd

okay, then try this:

sudo /usr/sbin/atftpd --daemon --user nobody --group nobody /tftpboot

if it does not output any errors, see if it is running using that ps command again.