[Kea-users] DHCP4 not starting or writing log file

Jason Guy jguy at cumulusnetworks.com
Tue Jul 17 13:37:30 UTC 2018


Hi Lawrence,

First, what version of Kea are you using?
Does the log directory exist? I am not sure if kea will create the
directory, as well as the file.
Finally, make sure to start the service as root or using sudo.

Jason

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:02 AM McBride Lawrence <
Lawrence.McBride at imerseyside.nhs.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am starting just the dhcp4 server with the following command:
>
>
>
> keactrl start -s dhcp4
>
>
>
> I get a corresponding message to say it is starting:
>
>
>
> INFO/keactrl: Starting /opt/kea/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c
> /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
>
>
> However, it doesn’t start as the status output shows:
>
>
>
> keactrl status
>
> DHCPv4 server: inactive
>
> DHCPv6 server: inactive
>
> DHCP DDNS: inactive
>
> Control Agent: inactive
>
> Kea DHCPv4 configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf
>
> Kea DHCPv6 configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf
>
> Kea DHCP DDNS configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf
>
> Kea Control Agent configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf
>
> keactrl configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/keactrl.conf
>
>
>
>
>
> I get no log output either so have no idea what is going on – logging
> config below:
>
>
>
> "loggers": [
>
>     {
>
>         // This section affects kea-dhcp4, which is the base logger for
> DHCPv4
>
>         // component. It tells DHCPv4 server to write all log messages (on
>
>         // severity INFO or more) to a file.
>
>         "name": "kea-dhcp4",
>
>         "output_options": [
>
>             {
>
>                 "output": "/opt/kea/var/log/kea-dhcp4.log"
>
>                 // This governs whether the log output is flushed to disk
> after
>
>                 // every write.
>
>                 // "flush": false,
>
>                 // This specifies the maximum size of the file before it is
>
>                 // rotated. File size is set to 10MB (10240000)
>
>                 "maxsize": 10240000,
>
>                 // This specifies the maximum number of rotated files to
> keep.
>
>                 "maxver": 8
>
>             }
>
>         ],
>
>
>
> *Lawrence McBride*
>
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>
>
>
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