Claude Jones wrote: | I'm going backwards! I entered my ISP's DNS servers in the | dhcpd.conf file since I don't run my own DNS server. At the same | time, I tried to follow the suggestions from the help-file that | Alexander posted to configure forwarding and NAT: | | modprobe iptable_nat | iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE #in this | case I changed "ppp0" to my gateway IP address | service iptables save | echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward | | Now, I get the following when I try to start DHCP: | Can't open lease database /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases: Permission | denied -- check for failed database rewrite attempt! | I tried following some suggestions on this error message I found | which involved manually flushing the dhcpd.leases and | dhcpd.leases~ files, but, my DHCP is still hosed. | | All suggestions welcome! | I respond to myself. I was in a tearing-hair-out-try-anything mode and made some concatenated mistakes. I'd tried installing firestarter and I think this was interfering with my manual entries. In any event, I removed it. I went into security settings and on the Selinux tab, I removed Selinux protection for the dhcp daemon under SELinux Service Protection. Presto, everything started working. Can someone tell me if I've done anything wrong with these SELinux changes? I can't remember if I'd changed them during the past serveral days, and simply put them back where they were. Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
