On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
- Apparently, since I updated from 5.1 to 5.2, dhcpd no longer wants to
stay running. The config is sound, and I can start it from the command-line with the "-d" flag and it serves up leases. But without the -d flag, it just silently dies...
Well, *that* sucked. I had to start the daemon with a '-p 67' option to get it to stick. So I stuck that into /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd as:
DHCPDARGS="-p 67"
and it started. Which led me down the "strace with and without the -p option and compare the output" path...
Turns out that without the -p option, it looks up the port number to use. nsswitch.conf in my case had "services: files ldap", which caused it to fail. I changed it to "services: files" and it worked. What kills me is that dhcpd died silently... and I have absolutely no desire to put services into my ldap directory...
So I've taken out the -p argument, and all is well...
Thanks for the assist though!
-I