On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:40 -0800, Jay Isaacs wrote: > Upon another recommendation I kill the xinetd process and ran the tftp > server with the following command line and everything works fine. There > must be some configuration item I an missing with xinetd. > > > /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -l -v -v -s /tftpboot One of the reasons tftp by default won't create a file is that there is no authentication needed. This becomes a security issue. Particularly for Internet facing systems.