Paul Howarth wrote: | On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 16:59 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: || Claude Jones wrote: || 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. | | Try: | # restorecon -R /etc/dhcp* /var/lib/dhcp | | That will hopefully fix the SELinux issues and you should be | able to re- enable protection for dhcpd. | | Paul. | -- | Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I'm not sure whether to remove the 'solved' from the subject line, since we seem to be back to problem solving. I followed your suggestion and reinstated dhcpd protection in SELinux, and now I'm back to the error message when I restart dhcpd: "Can't open lease database /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases: Permission denied -- check for failed database rewrite attempt!" Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
