NAME
rbootd - HP remote boot server
SYNOPSIS
rbootd [-ad] [-i interface] [config_file]
DESCRIPTION
The rbootd utility services boot requests from Hewlett-Packard
workstations over a local area network. All boot files must reside in
the boot file directory; further, if a client supplies path information
in its boot request, it will be silently stripped away before processing.
By default, rbootd only responds to requests from machines listed in its
configuration file.
The options are as follows:
-a Respond to boot requests from any machine. The configuration
file is ignored if this option is specified.
-d Run rbootd in debug mode. Packets sent and received are
displayed to the terminal.
-i interface
Service boot requests on specified interface. If
unspecified, rbootd searches the system interface list for
the lowest numbered, configured ‘‘up’’ interface (excluding
loopback). Ties are broken by choosing the earliest match.
Specifying config_file on the command line causes rbootd to use a
different configuration file from the default.
The configuration file is a text file where each line describes a
particular machine. A line must start with a machine’s Ethernet address
followed by an optional list of boot file names. An Ethernet address is
specified in hexadecimal with each of its six octets separated by a
colon. The boot file names come from the boot file directory. The
ethernet address and boot file(s) must be separated by white-space and/or
comma characters. A pound sign causes the remainder of a line to be
ignored.
Here is a sample configuration file:
#
# ethernet addr boot file(s) comments
#
08:00:09:0:66:ad SYSHPBSD # snake (4.3BSD)
08:00:09:0:59:5b # vandy (anything)
8::9:1:C6:75 SYSHPBSD,SYSHPUX # jaguar (either)
Rbootd logs status and error messages via syslog(3). A startup message
is always logged, and in the case of fatal errors (or deadly signals) a
message is logged announcing the server’s termination. In general, a
non-fatal error is handled by ignoring the event that caused it (e.g. an
invalid Ethernet address in the config file causes that line to be
invalidated).
The following signals have the specified effect when sent to the server
process using the kill(1) command:
SIGHUP Drop all active connections and reconfigure.
SIGUSR1 Turn on debugging, do nothing if already on.
SIGUSR2 Turn off debugging, do nothing if already off.
FILES
/etc/rbootd.conf
configuration file
/tmp/rbootd.dbg debug output
/var/lib/rbootd directory containing boot files
/var/run/rbootd.pid
process id
SEE ALSO
kill(1), socket(2), signal(3), syslog(3),
BUGS
If multiple servers are started on the same interface, each will receive
and respond to the same boot packets. The interface should be specified
in a configuration file rather than having to be put on the command line
as an argument. Also the location of the boot images is hardcoded into
the binary at compile time.