On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 07:00 -0400, Jean-Louis Leroy wrote: > I'm trying to install a DHCP server on a computer with FC4 installed > from scratch. > > When I start the DHCP server with `service dhcpd start` or > `/etc/init.d/dhcpd start` it fails and I get either "Can't open lease > database /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases: Permission denied" or "Can't bind > to dhcp address: Permission denied" in /var/log/messages. In the past DHCPD wouldn't start up without their being a /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases file, and you used to have to "touch" that filename to create something, in the first place. I don't recall having to do that with FC4 (it was a clean install onto a new HDD). But creating an empty file, with the right permissions (hmm, runs as root) would be the first thing that I would try with error messages like that. I didn't start my DHCPD server until after I'd finished setting up FC4, one thing that I did in the meantime was go through the "security level" configuration GUI, and adjust any SELinux parameters that I thought appropriate to my server, likewise for firewalling (block world access to local-only servers, allow LAN access, etc.). -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
