Re: How to check tftp server is running?

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

hce wrote:
> On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:21:31PM +1100, hce wrote:
> > > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:32:47PM +1100, hce wrote:
> > > > > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > > > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:35:17AM +1100, hce wrote:
> > > > > > > On 11/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > > > please provide
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > dpkg -l tftpd
> > > > > > > ~$ dpkg -l tftpd
> > > > > > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > > > > > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> > > > > > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> > > > > > > ||/ Name           Version        Description
> > > > > > > +++-==============-==============-============================================
> > > > > > > rc  tftpd          0.17-15        Trivial file transfer protocol server
> > ----------^^
> >
> > > > > > rc means that it is not installed.
> > > $ sudo dpkg -l tftpd
> > > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> > > | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> > > |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> > > ||/ Name           Version        Description
> > > +++-==============-==============-============================================
> > > ii  tftpd          0.17-15        Trivial file transfer protocol server
> > --^^
> >
> > ii means its installed.
> >
> > > Well, I've called "$ sudo /etc/init.d/openbsd-inetd restart", but
> > > tftpd doesn't seem work.
> > try running it directly, instead of from inet.d because I'm guessing
> > this is an inet.d configuration problem. I don't use inet.d, so
> > someone else will have to help here.
>
> Thanks Andrew, you are indeed so helpful.
>
> Fow anyone who knows debian, please help me the following:
>
> In FC6, the tftp script is in xinetd.d, I can call xinetd restart to
> include tftp service.
>
> In Debian, I could not find a tftp script in init.d. In fact, I could
> not find a tftp script under /etc. How can I get the tftp service?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jim

I had replied to this thread earlier, but apparently my post was lost. 
Anyway here it is again:

I have had good results by installing the tftpd-hpa package. You can run 
it from either inetd or standalone. For running the standalone version 
you need to disable it in /etc/inetd.conf and set the relevant flag to 
"yes" in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

To check whether the server is running, install some tftp client (say 
tftp-hpa), then try getting a file from the machine:
==
$ tftp localhost
tftp> get somefile
==

If you get an error almost immediately saying the file could not be 
found, that means the server is running :)

--
Raj Kiran Grandhi