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<p>Hi, Ronald!</p>
<p>We recently became aware of this warning too. It should not
prevent Kea from functioning properly if you leave it as-is.</p>
<p>The proper way to get rid of the message is to add
"ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 750" to the "[Service]" section,
although you may want to wait for an official update to the
systemd file.<br>
</p>
<p>Unrelated, if you're running on a Debian-based system,
uninstalling and installing Kea 2.6.3 does result in a more
serious error that prevents reinstallation.</p>
<p>dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:<br>
unknown system user '_kea' in statoverride file; the system user
got removed<br>
</p>
<p>This can be resolved with "dpkg-statoverride --remove /etc/kea"
before installing again.</p>
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</p>
<p>We are working to address both of the issues and we'll likely
provide new Kea packages for all affected versions this week,
although there is no official decision yet.</p>
<p>Thank you for the report and sorry for any inconvenience!<br>
Andrei<br>
</p>
On 10/06/2025 09:23, DDFR | Ronald Blaas wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap; display: block; width: 98vw;">> Hi all,
>
> As of today (using v2.6.3) I see this odd message in the log
> ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the mode is
> different. (File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 755)
>
>
> I was first triggered because something has changed in the socket-
> name. We used to have it set to /tmp but apparently this is not
> valid anymore and should be set to /var/run/kea. All fine by me 🙂
>
> But the message ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the
> mode is different. (File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode:
> 755) unknown to me. Ofcourse I could set the mode but because of
> security we do not want to set the other user bit(s)
>
> Any other way to get rid of this message?
>
> DHCP seems to be running fine.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ronald
>
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