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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.ci.com.au!brian.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.news.telstra.net!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!howland.erols.net!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: diskless booting Date: 14 Jul 1997 17:44:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5qdoid$ug@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5qcrb7$k16$1@esmeralda.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44445 O. Hartmann <ohartman@ipamzlx.physik.uni-mainz.de> wrote: > Trying to boot diskless over a network on the server > console the message tftpd[172]: chroot: /tftpboot: Operation not permitted. > What do that mean? Seems your tftpd doesn't run with root privileges, but tries to chroot(2). Either run it as root, or don't try running chrooted (the -s option). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)