[CentOS] DHCP chown

Tue Nov 4 21:08:50 UTC 2014
Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com>

On 11/02/2014 02:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 11/2/2014 11:37 AM, Barry Brimer wrote:
>>> I just installed 6.5 and am trying to bring up DHCP.
>>>
>>> service dhcpd start fails with "Can't chown new lease file:
>>> Operation  not
>>> permitted" in /var/log/messages
>>
>> Check the permissions in /var/lib/dhcp directory. 
>
> also check the selinux logs...  or temporarily set selinux to
> 'permissive' and see if it works, if it does, then something is fubar
> in the selinux rules.
>
>
>
Or simply run

restorecon -R -v /var

  TO make sure everything is labeled correctly.