Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65060
Error in sample dhcpd.conf in Configuration Guide
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: The example dhcpd.conf file in the Red Hat Linux Configuration guide found at http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-dhcp- configuring-server.html has an error in it. The argument to time-offset should be in seconds, not timezone. This is the same problem as noted in bug # 26446, but the fix does not seem to have made it to the documentation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom- guide/s1-dhcp-configuring-server.html 2. Scroll down to Example 12-1 and check out line 8. 3. Actual Results: Option listed as: option time-offset -5; # Eastern Standard Time Expected Results: Should be: option time-offset -18000; # Eastern Standard Time Additional info:
Thanks for your report. I have fixed it in CVS for the next release and in the HTML version on redhat.com/docs.