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Bug 39626

Summary:	DHCPD RPM missing file
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Allen Barnett <allen>
Component:	dhcp	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Allen Barnett 2001-05-08 12:11:07 UTC

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Description of problem:
Line #20 of /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd expects to find an existing file named
/var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases. However, the RPM package does not either
contain or create such a file, so, you cannot start DHCPD with 'service
dhcpd start' until the file is present. (Since this file is controlled by
the daemon itself, i.e., it is not a user configuration file, I'm not sure
why the init script cares about its existence anyway?)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install dhcp-2.0pl5-4 on a clean system
2. execute 'service dhcpd start'
3.
	

Actual Results:  DHCPD did not start.

Expected Results:  DHCPD should have started.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2001-07-02 01:54:59 UTC

AFAIK, you are expected to configure the daemon properly before starting it.
This includes dhcpd.conf and an initial leases database (whether empty or not).
The package doesn't ship with a default configuration, so no one would manage to
start an incompletely configured dhcpd which might cause network trouble. The
init script checks existence of dhcpd.leases because dhcpd would fail to start
if that file were not present (see man dhcpd.leases).

Comment 2 Allen Barnett 2001-07-02 12:10:53 UTC

OK. The dhcpd.leases man page is quite clear about what your responsibilities 
are for configuring DHCPD.

Please consider this bug closed, then. Thanks.