> Geoff Wing <gcw@pobox.com> wrote:
>  
> > There was a significant change that nobody was told about - that I know
> > of. I was going to send in a patch (after writing it) but I've put it
> > off for a while.
> > 
> > Put a ``/'' in front of all filenames.
> > 
> > My concern is that this is not really necessary in some cases, viz. when
> > you have used the ``-s'' option.  From the manual page:
> >    -s  tftpd will chroot(2) on startup; therefore the remote host is not
> >        expected to pass the directory as part of the file name to
> >        transfer. 
> 
> Grrr, now I know why my NetBSD 1.3 machines are no longer usable as a tftp
> server for my cisco equipment!  Is there a good reason this was changed? 
> Particularly when '-s /tftpboot' is used? 
> If anyone already has a working patch, please mail it to me, otherwise I'll
> have to come up with one today at work.
> 
> I don't want to sound like I'm whining (which I am), but I use a NetBSD
> machine for a tftp server, and for rsh/rcp services with our cisco router
> network.  With 1.3, these were *all* broken for me.  The rsh/rcp problem
> is related to NIS, which I can disable to make it work ok. (though I have
> a patch that makes it work with NIS)

	cd /tftpboot
	ln -s tftpboot .

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