<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Glen,<div><br></div><div>Here is the log output... not much that I can tell from it that is useful...</div><div><br></div><div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:12 Stopping because service restarting. ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:12 Executing stop method (:kill) ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:12 Executing start method ("/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -cf /opt/local/etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /opt/local/var/run/dhcpd.pid -lf /opt/local/var/db/dhcpd.leases") ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:16 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:16 Executing start method ("/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -cf /opt/local/etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /opt/local/var/run/dhcpd.pid -lf /opt/local/var/db/dhcpd.leases") ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:16 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:16 Executing start method ("/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -cf /opt/local/etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /opt/local/var/run/dhcpd.pid -lf /opt/local/var/db/dhcpd.leases") ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 10:05:16 Method "start" exited with status 1 ]</div><div><b>[ Sep 18 13:28:04 Leaving maintenance because clear requested. ] <- I did this.</b></div><div>[ Sep 18 13:28:04 Enabled. ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 13:28:04 Executing start method ("/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -cf /opt/local/etc/dhcpd.conf -pf /opt/local/var/run/dhcpd.pid -lf /opt/local/var/db/dhcpd.leases") ]</div><div>[ Sep 18 13:28:05 Method "start" exited with status 0 ]</div><div><br></div></div><div>Started and ran fine.</div><div>I will look more into it.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again</div><div><br></div><div>-Ron</div><div><br><div><div>On Sep 20, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Glenn Satchell wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">From: Ronald Valente <<a href="mailto:rawn027@gmail.com">rawn027@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: Failed Failover<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am running ISC DHCP 3.1.2 on Solaris 10.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">When one of the DHCP server pairs fail, the other goes into a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">maintenance state and fails to respond to DHCP DISCOVER messages.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">All I need to do to fix it is a svcadm isc-dhcp clear and it comes <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">back online just fine.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Any ideas as to why this is an issue?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ron<br></blockquote><br>Hi Ronald<br><br>Service start up scripts are not part of the dhcp distribution, so<br>there's no clear answer to this one. However, a couple of general<br>svcadm troubleshooting tips are to use<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>svcs -xv isc-dhcp<br><br>then examine the svc log file given in the output from that command to<br>see what error dhcpd is reporting.<br><br>Then you need to see why svcadm is putting the dhcp service into<br>maintenance mode when that error occurs. It might mean a change to the<br>service manifest to allow for that error, or to the service startup<br>script.<br><br>(For the rest of the list members, this svcadm is a new feature in<br>Solaris 10 and Opensolaris. It controls the startup and shutdown of<br>services, a bit like the old init.d scripts, but on steroids!)<br><br>regards,<br>-glenn<br>--<br>Glenn Satchell <a href="mailto:glenn.satchell@uniq.com.au">mailto:glenn.satchell@uniq.com.au</a> | Miss 9: What do you<br>Uniq Advances Pty Ltd <a href="http://www.uniq.com.au">http://www.uniq.com.au</a> | do at work Dad?<br>PO Box 70 Paddington NSW Australia 2021 | Miss 6: He just<br>tel:0409-458-580 fax:02-9380-6416 | types random stuff.<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dhcp-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dhcp-users@lists.isc.org">dhcp-users@lists.isc.org</a><br>https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcp-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>