On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:36 +0100, Oliver Sampson wrote: > When I start dhcpd manually from the command line, everything works > dandily, but when I use 'init.d/dhcpd start or restart' I get the > following error: > > Can't open lease database /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases: Permission > denied Feb 6 13:27:09 friday dhcpd: check for failed database > rewrite attempt! Just for curiosity's sake what happens if you did: service dhcpd start (or restart), instead of the command line that you used? -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.