dhcpd.leases permissions

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Feb 13 14:44:41 UTC 2006


Oliver Sampson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 13:44 +0100, Oliver Sampson wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 13:45 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Could be an SELinux issue. Running from the command-line would start 
>>>dhcpd "unconfined", unlike running it from an initscript.
>>>
>>>Try:
>>>
>>># restorecon -R /var/lib/dhcp
>>>
>>>and see if that helps.
>>
>>Oh, man. That seemed like a good idea, but it didn't work.  
>>
> 
> 
> So, I went and turned off SELinux entireley, and rebooted.  dhcpd
> restarted fine.
> 
> If I decide to turn SELinux back on, what do I need to tinker with to
> get dhcpd to work?

Try:

# restorecon -R $(rpm -ql dhcp)

Then try restarting dhcp using the initscript (service dhcpd restart).

Look at any error messages that result from this in /var/log/messages or 
/var/log/audit/audit.log

Paul.




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