Umaks is set in /etc/bashrc and is 022 by default for rhel systems.

What I suspect is that the owner of your directories has changed. What user 
does tftpd run as? By default tftpd runs as nobody, but if you specify the -u 
(for user) option in the server_args line of /etc/xinetd.d/tftpd you can set 
there perms on the directories and files to be 700 and 600 if everything is 
owned by the user given to the -u option for tftpd.


Just a thought


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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen John 
Smoogen
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Interesting issue with cobbler and EL-5

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> An interesting issue came up today with our RHEL-5 system running
>> cobbler. We had not built a system in a couple of days, and had not
>> seen any issues. Today of the systems could get tftp images from the
>> box. They kept getting permission denied. For some reason the files in
>> /tftpboot/images were 0600 (and directories 0700) which must have
>> worked last week but did not today. the reason is that the EL-5 tftpd
>> daemon gets the pxecfg.conf file as root but becomes nobody and could
>> not get any of the scripts below it. Changing the permissions to 0644
>> and 0755 fixed the issue.
>>
>> Now why did it work last week? I don't know.. I can't see any config
>> file changes that would have allowed it to do so..
>>
>>
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem? This is the first I've heard of it.
>
> We could possibly not be setting umask correctly but nothing has changed
> in this area of the code for a long time, so I'd be more likely to suspect
> something external was adjusting your permissions.
>

Hmmm maybe. What should the umask for those directories be by default?




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