On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Ian Forde wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:57 -0700, 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... > > 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! Would you be so kind to report this problem to CentOS' bugtracker (and probably Red Hat's Bugzilla) ? http://bugs.centos.org/ This obviously is an error that can bite other people as well and the least we can do is bring this to Red Hat's attention. -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]