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Running TFTP server on Ubuntu 14.04

# Install tftpd-hpa package apt-get update apt-get -y install tftpd-hpa # Fix config file broken by default # - use correct tftpboot directory rather than random location under /var # - chroot to tftpboot # - allow uploading of files but not overwriting existing # - listen IPv4 and IPv6 instead of IPv6 only # - enable logging mv /etc/default/tftpd-hpa /etc/default/tftpd-hpa.old cat <<'__EOF__' >/etc/default/tftpd-hpa TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"  TFTP_DIRECTORY="/tftpboot"  TFTP_ADDRESS=":69" TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure --create --listen --verbose" __EOF__ # Create tftpboot directory and use proper permissions mkdir /tftpboot chmod -R 1770 /tftpboot  chown -R root:tftp /tftpboot # Restart service service tftpd-hpa restart P.S. There's config file bug causing tftpd to listen only IPv6 connections by default... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tftp-hpa/+bug/1448500