> You are running tftpd as "nobody" and asking it to chroot into /foo, > which is a privileged operation. You should probably run tftpd as root, > and use the -u option to make it run as an unprivileged user. Brian McDonald <brianmcd at columbus.rr.com> gets first credit for catching my stoopidity (in private email). but this was exactly it. thank you both. randy