dhcpd is very noisy on bootup, this started happening about the time of some initscript changes a few weeks back. When started, the daemon prints out: [root@tornado init.d]# /etc/init.d/dhcpd start Starting dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.2rc3 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file. Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file. Wrote 4 leases to leases file. Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0d:61:5e:8b:b3/192.168.0.0/24 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0d:61:5e:8b:b3/192.168.0.0/24 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net [ OK ] [root@tornado init.d] It should simply print out: Starting dhcp: [ OK ]
When dhcp is run from rc.sysinit, ie. during the boot process, or from "service dhcpd start", these messages should not appear on the terminal - if they do, it is related to the removal of initlog / minilogd in initscripts - nothing has changed in dhcpd or the /etc/init.d/dhcpd script that would cause these messages to appear - they used to be logged via initlog. This is not a dhcp bug.
It's behaving the same way as if dhcpd was run by hand; in my opinion, if those are critical messages, they should be logged by the daemon itself. If not, they should be silenced.
This bug is now fixed in dhcp-3.0.2rc3-3, now in FC4/rawhide . Please test and let me know if it fixes your problem - thanks.
Yep, resolved now, thanks Jason.