On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 19:12 -0400, Marko A. Jennings wrote: > On Sun, July 6, 2008 6:57 pm, Ian Forde wrote: > > 1. 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... > > Mine has been working without any problems before and after the 5.2 > update. You might want to consider posting your configuration file. Well, I stripped it down as much as I could - same problem exists... (IP addresses and domain name changed, of course...) ddns-update-style none; ignore client-updates; subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range dynamic-bootp 10.0.0.101 10.0.0.200; default-lease-time 86400; max-lease-time 604800; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255; option routers 10.0.0.1; option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.75, 10.0.0.76; option domain-name "mydomain.com"; } But like I was saying before, if it were a config problem, it wouldn't have been able to start on the command-line in non-daemon mode. Same problem when I downloaded it from www.isc.org (3.0.7) and rolled a source build. So there's definitely something strange (or obvious that I'm missing) going on... -I