dhcpd refuses to start after fresh FC4 install

[Paul Howarth]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Monday 20 June 2005 04:39, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>>I've had to rebuild a machine, and I have limited net access right now,
>>>so pardon me if this has been asked.
>>>
>>>DHCPD is refusing to start, manually, or as set to run at boot. Is this a
>>>SELINUX setting? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as this machine
>>>has to running in a couple of hours
>>
>>If it's an SELinux issue then you should be seeing audit errors in the
>>logs when you try to start the daemon, and "setenforce 0" would allow it
>>to work (this is a quick test to determine if it's an SELinux issue, I'm
>>not recommending this as a long-term fix).
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> Saw this at about 4am, and tried it, and it worked. So, I guess that begs the 
> question of configuring SELINUX to allow DHCPD, or something else? I've had 
> about 3 hours sleep, but at least the machine is running. Thanks. 

Next step is to figure out what the problem is. Try restarting dhcpd and 
look in /var/log/messages for audit messages indicating what wouldn't be 
allowed in enforcing mode.

Paul.