dhcpd.leases file is growing out of control after upgrade
Doug Barton
dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Aug 5 18:06:58 UTC 2013
On 08/05/2013 09:59 AM, Scott Baker wrote:
> :ls -lsa
> total 291628
> 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 5 07:51 .
This is your problem. The directory is not writable by the dhcpd user,
so it cannot swap the leases file while running unprivileged. When you
restart the server it can write out the new leases file before it drops
privileges. You should actually be seeing error messages about this in
your logs.
Change the owner of the directory to dhcpd and it should work fine.
hope this helps,
Doug
> 4 drwxr-xr-x. 33 root root 4096 Aug 1 11:10 ..
> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 11 2011 dhcpd6.leases
> 12636 -rw-r--r-- 1 dhcpd dhcpd 12937007 Aug 5 09:58 dhcpd.leases
> 278984 -rw-r--r-- 1 dhcpd dhcpd 285674779 Aug 5 07:51 dhcpd.leases~
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