The below steps will allow you to set up a TFTP server on Linux but specifically on a CentOS server. All you need to do is install a couple files with yum, enable the server, and restart xinetd.

1. Install TFTP Server: Use the below syntax to install the TFTP server on CentOS.

[root@centos-server ~]#yum install tftp-server

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Tags: CentOS, chkconfig, chmod, server, TFTP, tftpboot, xinetd, yum

If you are in process of installing the NRPE daemon as an xinetd service for Nagios monitoring capabilities you may run across this error in /var/log/messages.

If you have started xinetd by typing the following:
shell# /etc/init.d/xinetd start

but you do not see the NRPE service listening by using netstat:
shell# netstat -an | grep 5666

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