what are you using the rewrite stuff for?

On 23/02/2013, at 5:45 PM, russell <russ...@dotplan.dyndns.org> wrote:

> So I am using tftpd -r <socket> and my rewrite script works however I am at a 
> loss as to the best way to start tftpd.
> 
> From my experiments, the rewrite engine has to start before tftpd, tftpd 
> expects the socket to exist. however tftpd is started rather earlier in 
> /etc/rc than than a "pkg_scripts" rc.d entry(my initial choice).
> 
> So my options as I see them are.
> 
> 1 modify /etc/rd.d/tftpd to start the rewrite engine
> benifit:the two programs really do need to run together
> problems: will get erased during upgrade.
> 
> 2 modify /etc/rc to start tftpd_rewrite_engine before tftps
> problems: nonstandard rc, changes will get erased during upgrade
> 
> 3 remove tftpd from rc.conf.local and make custom rc.d/tftpd_local
>  that will start both processes from pkg_scripts
> problems: nonstandard tftpd start
> 
> 
> I am hoping I have missed somthing obvious but will probably go with choice 
> three(the pkg_scripts tftpd)
> 
> And, if anyone whishes to see it, I would be happy to share my rewrite 
> script, however about the best that can be said about it is "It works". It is 
> written in python and I have little experiance writing socket code.

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