set up tftp server on redhat system

1. setup the virtual machine and redhat systme

2. mount /cdrom /mnt

3. cd /mnt -->ls-->rpm -ivh tftp-server-0.42-3.1.i386.rpm

run the uper command get an error like following:

     error: Failed dependencies:
           xinetd is needed by tftp-server-0.42-3.1.i386

it means that we should set up xinetd firstly

4. rpm -ivh xinetd-2.3.14-10.el5.i386.rpm

5. rpm -ivh tftp-server-0.42-3.1.i386.rpm

6. vim /etc/xinetd.d/tftp

    service tftp
{
        socket_type             = dgram
        protocol                = udp
        wait                    = yes
        user                    = root
        server                  = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
        server_args             = -s /home                                         //shared dir
        disable                 = no                                                       //set to be no
        per_source              = 11
        cps                     = 100 2
        flags                   = IPv4

7. /etc/init.d/xinetd restart

8. close the firewall /etc/init.d/iptable stop

9.setenforce permissive

10. test

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