DHCP Server Configuration Problem
Simon Hobson
dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon May 26 12:58:51 UTC 2008
DÔ Phan-Cam-Thach wrote:
>My distribution est Ubuntu 8.04. I installed
>dhcpd from source sur le site de isc. And i have
>tried with sudo, so i was in the root mode.
>
>I haven't found the file dhcpd.conf in /etc/init.d either.
You are confusing the program (and scripts to
start/stop it) with the config file.
The default location for the config file is
/etc/dhcpd.conf, and it should be sufficient to
type "dhcpd" to start the server. You do NOT type
"./dhcpd" unless you are in the directory where
the binary is located, nor do you try to execute
dhcpd.conf.
I think you will find it easier to use the
packaged binary as that will provide scripts for
controlling the server and save you the effort of
writing those, and any dependencies will be taken
care of for you. Since you are using Ubuntu which
is Debian based, the packaged version would place
the config file at /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf, and you
would control the program by using
/etc/init.d/dhcpd - eg to start the service you
would type "/etc/init.d/dhcpd start", to stop it
you would type "/etc/init.d/dhcpd stop" and so on.
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