On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:45 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > Oliver Sampson wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 01:11 +1030, Tim wrote: > > > >>Oliver Sampson: > >> > >>>>>When I start dhcpd manually from the command line, everything works > >>>>>dandily > >> > >>Exactly how do you start if from the command line? > > > > > > /usr/sbin/dhcpd > > > > > > > >>I have a DHCP server, but it's run by the init.d/ scripts, when Fedora > >>starts up. I haven't tried it manually. I would have suggested maybe > >>SELinux would have been a cause of the problem, but I'd expect it to > >>always fail, if that were the case. > >> > >>Do you get further clues in the log files about why it fails? > > > > > > There's also this in the log: > > > > check for failed database rewrite attempt! > > > > I just don't know why one call from the command line as root would work, > > and why one call via a script as root wouldn't work. > > Could be an SELinux issue. Running from the command-line would start > dhcpd "unconfined", unlike running it from an initscript. > > Try: > > # restorecon -R /var/lib/dhcp > > and see if that helps. Oh, man. That seemed like a good idea, but it didn't work. Thanks, -- Oliver Sampson Support Indie Music! olsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://cdbaby.com/group/MrSampson http://www.oliversampson.com
