dhcpd.leases file is growing out of control after upgrade

[Glenn Satchell]

On Tue, August 6, 2013 1:53 am, Scott Baker wrote:
>
> There is a dhcpd.leases~ file, but it does NOT appear to have been
> updated in the last 50 minutes:
>
>   6628 -rw-r--r--   1 dhcpd dhcpd   6786675 Aug  5 08:38 dhcpd.leases
> 278984 -rw-r--r--   1 dhcpd dhcpd 285674779 Aug  5 07:51 dhcpd.leases~
>
> I restarted the dhcp server 7:51 to clean up the file so I guess that
> makes sense.
>
> --
> Scott Baker - Canby Telcom
> System Administrator - RHCE - 503.266.8253

Scott,

what are the permission s on the directory where the lease file is? Might
be that the dhcpd user cannot create the temporary file (no write
permission)?

regards,
-glenn