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> 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@columbus.rr.com> gets first credit for catching my
stoopidity (in private email).  but this was exactly it.  thank you both.

randy