Linux – How To Install A TFTP Server On Centos 4.8

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I KNOW I'm missing something simple here. I'm trying to install/run a TFTP server on my centos 4.8 server. I've done the following:

1) Authenticated to the shell as root.

2) Installed tftp-server: yum install tftp-server (xinetd is already installed btw)

3) Edit /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and set disable = no

# default: off
# description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer \
#       protocol.  The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless \
#       workstations, download configuration files to network-aware printers, \
#       and to start the installation process for some operating systems.

service tftp
{
            disable                 = no
            socket_type             = dgram
            protocol                = udp
            wait                    = yes
            user                    = root
            server                  = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
            server_args             = -s /tftpboot
            per_source              = 11
            cps                     = 100 2
            flags                   = IPv4
 }

4) Restart xinetd: service xinetd restart

5) Set directory permissions: chmod 777 /tftpboot

6) Make sure the service starts on reboot: chkconfig tftp on

7) Make sure xinetd starts on reboot: chkconfig xinetd on

The tftp-server doesn't seem to start though… not sure why. I don't get any errors but I don't see it listening on port 69 in local netstat results and I can't connect to from tftp client.

What am I missing here?

UPDATE
Thanks for all your help guys. I think I'm starting to see the root cause here — xinetd doesn't appear to be running or started. 

[root@server ~]# service xinetd restart
[root@server ~]#

I've removed tftp-server and then removed xinetd… reinstalled them both with yum (xinetd first) but I'm still getting the same error. Is there a log I can examine for xinet?

Best Answer

In server args you have -s /tftpboot, but in your post you said the dir you're using is /tftpserver. The -s and path means the directory that you are using as the TFTP root directory. Change this to the path or the directory you want to use.

If /tftpboot doesn't exist you'll see an error in /var/log/messages and the daemon won't actually start.

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