Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 174826
dhclient cannot write lease file
Last modified: 2014-03-16 22:57:06 EDT
Description of problem: Errors logged in /var/log/messages by dhclient Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dhclient-3.0.3-14 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure machine as dhcp client 2. more /var/log/messages 3. look for messages from dhclient Actual results: dhclient: can't create /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases: No such file or directory Expected results: No messages. Additional info: /var/lib/dhcp does not exist, but /var/lib/dhclient is created by dhclient rpm. Creating a directory /var/lib/dhcp allows dhclient to write dhclient-eth0.leases there. Previous versions (FC3 and before, anyway) of dhclient also used /var/lib/dhcp, not /var/lib/dhclient.
Yes, dhclient does not use /var/lib/dhcp - it uses /var/lib/dhclient. This change was made for bug 169164 . initscripts needs to be updated to use /var/lib/dhclient instead of /var/lib/dhcp - this initscripts change is forthcoming. Meanwhile, please bear with us and create the /var/lib/dhcp directory manually .