dhcpd.leases permissions

[Paul Howarth]

Oliver Sampson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 01:11 +1030, Tim wrote:
> 
>>Oliver Sampson:
>>
>>>>>When I start dhcpd manually from the command line, everything works
>>>>>dandily
>>
>>Exactly how do you start if from the command line?
> 
> 
> /usr/sbin/dhcpd
> 
> 
> 
>>I have a DHCP server, but it's run by the init.d/ scripts, when Fedora
>>starts up.  I haven't tried it manually.  I would have suggested maybe
>>SELinux would have been a cause of the problem, but I'd expect it to
>>always fail, if that were the case.
>>
>>Do you get further clues in the log files about why it fails?
> 
> 
> There's also this in the log:
> 
> check for failed database rewrite attempt!
> 
> I just don't know why one call from the command line as root would work,
> and why one call via a script as root wouldn't work.

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.

Paul.