Package: tftpd-hpa Version: 5.2+20150808-1 Severity: normal Hi,
if /srv/tftp/undionly.kpxe is a symlink to /usr/lib/ipxe/undionly.kpxe, the tftp server does not transfer the file. With the tftp-hpa client, this results in a zero bytes file being written to the target directory, followed by the error message "Error code 1: File not found". A symlink of pxelinux.0 to debian-installer/amd64/pxelinux.0 gets served just fine, thankfully. In the out-of-tree symlink case, the server does not write anything to the log. This behavior is also not documented in the man page (I would have stayed with aftpd if I knew this beforehand). Since symlinking undionly.kpxe is a rather common setup and gives the local admin the advantage of always delivering a current undionly.kpxe, this is rather unhandy. If it is actually intended, please document and consider asking upstream to implement a command line switch to enable serving of out-of-tree symlinks. If this is not the intended behavior, it's a bug and needs fixing. Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-zgws1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tftpd-hpa depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 tftpd-hpa recommends no packages. Versions of packages tftpd-hpa suggests: pn pxelinux <none> -- debconf information: tftpd-hpa/directory: /srv/tftp tftpd-hpa/address: 0.0.0.0:69 tftpd-hpa/username: tftp tftpd-hpa/options: --secure
