[ale] Ubuntu server issue: TFTP on 9.04

[Charles Shapiro]

Stupid stuff first:  Did you make sure that tftp is correctly
specified in /etc/services?  It probably is but will take 2 sec to
find out (" grep tftp /etc/services" should bring up "tftp
69/udp\n").

Are other inetd services working? "telnet localhost" should work if
they are.  Looks like on my Karmic system inetd/xinetd aren't even
installed, although I do have an "/etc/inetd.conf".  I can see that
they're in the pkg manager (inetd is called "inetutils-inetd" in the
Koala repos).  IIRC, you have to SIGHUP//restart them when you add a
service as well.

Best as I can think of in 10 minutes. Good luck.

-- CHS


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Mills John M-NPHW64
<Jmills at motorola.com> wrote:
> ALErs -
>
> I'm having some trouble setting up TFTP service from an Ubuntu-9.04
> 'desktop' installation. I installed 'tftpd-hpa' and have tried to configure
> it, but don't get even local service to my own login.
>
> My '/etc/inetd.conf' includes:
> 'tftp   dgram udp nobody /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s
> /var/lib/tftpboot'
>
> Ownership and permissions on that directory are:
> $ ls -l /var/lib
> ...
> drwxr-xr-x 2 nobody root ... tftpboot
> ...
>
> I also have '/etc/xinetd.d/tftp-hpa' as:
> "service tftp
> {
> protocol = udp
> port = 69
> socket_type = dgram
> wait = yes
> user = nobody
> # group = nobody
> group = root
> server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
> server_args = /var/lib/tftpboot
> # only_from = 10.59.0.0
> disable = no
> }"
>
> Turning off the firewall is no help. Incoming 'tftp' to another server works
> fine.
>
> Any ideas how to get this going?
>
> TIA.
>  - Mills
>
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