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This article describes the issue of the devSvrTFTP process failing to start.

After running the SetPerms utility on a newer version of NSM, the devSvrtFTP process fails to start. Starting it manually does not help.

The setperms.sh utility changes the file permission of the .devSvrTFTP hidden file under /usr/netscreen/DevSvr/bin. This results in failure of the devSvrTFTP service:

# /etc/init.d/devSvr status
nsm owner is nsm
Retrieving status...
devSvrDbSvr (pid 29116)............................ON
devSvrManager (pid 29275)..........................ON
devSvrLogWalker (pid 29508)........................ON
devSvrDataCollector (pid 29712)....................ON
devSvrDirectiveHandler (pid 29853).................ON
devSvrProfilerMgr (pid 30014)......................ON
devSvrStatusMonitor (pid 30194)....................ON
devSvrTFTP ........................................OFF

To resolve this issue, you have to change the file permission of .devSvrTFTP to the correct setting.

In most cases, the incorrect file permission is as follows:

-r-xr-x--x 1 nsm nsm 221345 Oct 12 10:30 .devSvrTFTP

The standard file permission must be:

-r-sr-s--x 1 root nsm 221345 Oct 12 10:30 .devSvrTFTP

Run the following commands on the NSM server's CLI:

chown root:nsm /usr/netscreen/DevSvr/bin/.devSvrTFTP
chmod 6551 /usr/netscreen/DevSvr/bin/.devSvrTFTP

After this, you can either restart devSvr services or manually start the devSvrTFTP service via the following command:

sh /usr/netscreen/DevSvr/bin/devSvrTFTP.sh start

If the setperms utility has to be run, make sure that you adhere to the above procedure.

2020-10-19: Tagged article for EOL/EOE.