[gerdesj]

Colour me surprised. An IT related search will generally end up with loads of returns that lead to AI generated wankery.

For example, suppose you wish to back up switch configs or dump a file or whatever and tftp is so easy and simple to setup. You'll tear it down later or firewall it or whatever.

So a quick search "linux tftp serevr" gets you to say: https://thelinuxcode.com/install_tftp_server_ubuntu/

All good until you try to use the --create flag which should allow you to upload to the server. That flag is not valid for tftp-hpa, it is valid on tftpd (another tftp daemon)

That's a hallucination. Hallucinations are fucking annoying and increasingly prevalent. In Windows land the humans hallucinate - C:\ SFC /SCANNOW does not fix anything except for something really madly self imposed.

[viraptor]

That's not an AI hallucination. The content comes from Ubuntu community wiki https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TFTP - it was written in 2015. And at least in Debian, tftpd-hpa man page lists --create as valid https://manpages.debian.org/testing/tftpd-hpa/tftpd.8.en.htm...

Seems valid upstream too https://github.com/Distrotech/tftp-hpa/blob/5e95f248e8435eb3...

[mkl]

It says to put the --create option in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa. tftpd-hpa does support --create (at least on Ubuntu). The client program tftp-hpa (no d) doesn't support --create, but that's not what the instructions are talking about.

[bongodongobob]

It's funny you mention this because yesterday I had it write me a shell script to set up a TFTP server from scratch. I had it walk me through the process first, then said "ok now make that into a script." And it did and it works.