How to limit the number of tftpd processes

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The per_source parameter of xinet.d has not effect on the number of tftpd processes:
$ grep per_source /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
        per_source              = 1
$ ps -edf | grep tftp
root     19323 19319  1 13:01 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot
nobody   19324 19323  8 13:01 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot
nobody   19325 19323  8 13:01 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot
nobody   19326 19323 12 13:01 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot
nobody   19327 19323 12 13:01 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot
...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • xinetd
  • tftp

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