On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Philip Cohen wrote:
> I now get a message from the syslog that tells me that my tftp server can not
> run because the address is already in use.Hopefully this is the last barrier
> here. I run in.tftpd as an option in xinetd. The options are configured the
> same way as recommended on the Ubuntu support website.
So xinetd should be listening on port 69. If in.tftpd also tries to listen
on that port you would see your symptom. Is there any chance that the
command line includes the -l option (standalone listener)?
Here's our /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file. Note, we aren't a boot server; we use
this so a Cisco box can deposit a dump of its configuration automatically.
So you would certainly need a different -U option in server_args.
service tftp
{
disable = no
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
# UCLA-Mathnet hacks:
# -s chrootdir
# -u setUID to this user (group = its primary group = maint)
# -U umask (complement of 407 -> mode 260, server can write
# but not read the incoming file)
# -c (absent) = can create new files (we forbid this)
# -p (absent) would allow any file (for which the server has
# permission, there aren't any) to be read. As it is,
# only publicly readable (xx4) files can be read.
server_args = -s /tftpboot -u bugs -U 407
}
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