Sure, that way will work, but usually the intent of keeping it in /etc
is so that you can backup, say, /etc only and recover easily or,
move /etc to another drive or some such.
Simply symlinking it in the way you do has the only convenience of not
having to type or remember the path to tftpboot. :)
-G
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:34 -0500, Scott Balneaves wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 10:18:08AM -0400, Gideon Romm wrote:
> > Guys-
> >
> > That doesn't work, because tftpd runs in a chroot'd environment. No
> > symlinks allowed (you kinda would break the security that way).
> >
> > That's why it is not in /etc/ltsp (which would be logical).
>
> In about 5 minutes I know I'll regret this, buuuuuut... :)
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ltsp$ sudo ln -s /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf
> /etc/ltsp/lts.conf
> [sudo] password for sbalneav: whatmeansltsprocks
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ltsp$ ls
> dhcpd.conf lts.conf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/ltsp$ ls -la
> total 20K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K 2008-09-05 09:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x 140 root root 12K 2008-09-05 09:05 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 2008-04-21 09:50 dhcpd.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2008-09-05 09:30 lts.conf ->
> /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/lts.conf
>
> So, the file sits in tftpboot, but a symlink points to it from etc. Should be
> ok in my mind.
>
> But I agree: I've just gotten used to dealing with it in /var/lib...
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
>
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