DHCPd setup trouble
Madison Kelly
linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Sat Oct 31 02:26:25 UTC 2009
Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to do something that should be dead simple, and am managing
> to fail miserably.
>
> I've got a CentOS 5.3 machine and I want to set up a dhcpd daemon.
> However, it fails to start and I can't seem to find where or if it is
> logging. I've added to the following to '/etc/syslog.conf' and reloaded
> the syslog daemon as the dhcpd.conf man page suggests:
>
> local7.debug /var/log/dhcpd.log
>
> Nothing works though. When I try to start the dhcpd daemon it simply
> prints "failed". I've currently stripped my config down to the bare bones:
>
> subnet 192.168.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> option routers 192.168.1.1;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.110;
> }
>
> I don't know how to make it any simpler than that and it still won't
> start... Am I missing something simple?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Madi
Well, I figured out the error... After sending this I started reading
the init.d dhcpd file and saw the 'configtest' option. Typo in the address.
However, I am still wondering why the failure isn't logging anywhere.
Madi
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