Linux in a Nutshell, Fourth Edition

Name

tftpd

Synopsis

                  in.tftpd [options] [directories]

TCP/IP command. IPv4 Trivial File Transfer Protocol server. in.tftpd is normally started by inetd and operates at the port indicated in the tftp Internet service description in /etc/services. Only publicly readable files may be accessed. By default, only files that already exist and are publicly writable can be written. In addition, if any directories are specified, access is restricted to files in those directories. The version of tftp described here is tftp-hpa.

Options

-a [address][:port]

Specify the address and port to listen to when run in standalone mode with -l. By default, use the address and port in /etc/services.

-c

Allow new files to be written. The default permissions allow anyone to read and write the files. Use -p or -U to set other permissions.

-l

Run tftpd in standalone mode, not from inetd. This mode ignores -t.

-m remap-file

Remap filenames based on rules specified in remap-file. Each line in the file contains an operation, an egrep-style regular expression (regex), and optionally a replacement pattern. If the regex matches any part of a filename, the operation is performed. The operation is specified as any of the letters shown in the next section, alone or in combination. Comment lines begin with #.

-p

Use only normal system access controls for the user specified with -u (the tftpd username).

-r option

Never accept the specified RFC 2347 option (see the later section “Standards”). The possible options are blksize ...