dhcp support NSS file system?

kalyanasundaram S s.kalyanasundaram at inbox.com
Thu Aug 2 10:36:32 UTC 2007


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> kalyanasundaram S wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> did u touch
>>> 
>>> /media/nss/LOCALVOL/var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases  ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> shishir
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes i touched it. The server is able to come up. But it it could not
>> write down. But i observed after some time it generated more than 50000
>> file of dhcpd.leases.{randum-numbers} in the same directory. But those
>> files does not contain any lease information. It contains the lease file
>> comments.
>> All the files contain the below,
> 
> Can you check the system logs to see if there are any messages from the
> DHCP server?
> 

It logs the message but nothing much. The initial log messages are,
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Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.3
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Wrote 0 leases to leases file.
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Can't backup lease database /media/nss/LOCALVOL/var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases to /media/nss/LOCALVOL/var/lib/dhcp/db/dhcpd.leases~: Invalid argument
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:14:38:4c:60:80/152.98.169/24
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:14:38:4c:60:80/152.98.169/24
Aug  2 15:59:19 test-54 dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Aug  2 15:59:27 test-54 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:14:38:4c:2a:f4 via eth0
Aug  2 15:59:27 test-54 dhcpd: ICMP Echo reply while lease 152.98.169.96 valid.
Aug  2 15:59:27 test-54 dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 152.98.169.96: pinged before offer
Aug  2 15:59:27 test-54 dhcpd: Can't create new lease file: Permission denied
Aug  2 15:59:30 test-54 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:11:11:b1:ce:57 via eth0
Aug  2 15:59:30 test-54 dhcpd: ICMP Echo reply while lease 152.98.169.95 valid.
Aug  2 15:59:30 test-54 dhcpd: Abandoning IP address 152.98.169.95: pinged before offer
Aug  2 15:59:30 test-54 dhcpd: Can't create new lease file: Permission denied
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I had only only one pool and one IP address ( I had tested large range of address too) to lease for the testing purpose. No other configuration i had. And there will be continuous Permission denied errors in the logs. Do you see anything?

Thanks for your help,
 -Kalyan


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