Installation instructions for SunOS Compile the executable: For SunOS 4.X: make sunos4 For SunOS 5.X: (Solaris) make sunos5 Install the executables: make install Edit (or create) the bootptab: (See bootptab.sample and bootptab.5 manual entry) edit /etc/bootptab Edit /etc/services to add these two lines: bootps 67/udp bootp # BOOTP Server bootpc 68/udp # BOOTP Client Edit /etc/inetd.conf to add the line: bootp dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/bootpd bootpd -i If you compiled report.c with LOG_LOCAL2 (defined in the Makefile) then you may want to capture syslog messages from BOOTP by changing your syslog.conf file. (See the sample syslog.conf file here). Test the change with: logger -t test -p local2.info "message"