From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 13:34:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6C237B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mr01.conversent.com (mr01.conversent.net [216.41.101.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B58DC43E4A for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cmeiklejohn@conversent.com) Received: from M5 (warwick.conversent.com [155.212.1.79]) by mr01.conversent.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with SMTP id g9NKW5qa010557; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:32:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher Meiklejohn" To: "Brian Jackson" , "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "Feng Li" , Subject: RE: Is there any info about this type tftp daemon ? Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:33:26 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <3DB70628.2040103@verizon.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Taken from the man page: "Files can be written only if they already exist and are publicly writable. " --Chris > > I know that on some old Sun systems I had to manage, I had to "touch > " and make sure it was writable before we could get files to > it. In other words, make a 0 length file of the name of the file you > are trying to tftp to the server first, and when you do the transfer it > will overwrite it. Might be the same issue? > > Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message