DHCP assistance required.

[Bill Davidsen]

Simon Slater wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 22:44 +1030, Tim wrote:
>>  > I just wonder why the parser was pointing to the line before this
>> one?
>>
>> The last one it understood?  Although that was the sort of behaviour
>> I've seen in other things (the computer says things were fine up
>> to /this/ point), but it doesn't tally with the way I'm used to seeing
>> error messages in this case.
>>
>> You could try stuffing up another line to see what the error response
>> is.  Perhaps the error reporting is wrong.  I've certainly seen other
>> things make wrong error reports.  e.g. Error "at line 10..." where
>> it's
>> been counting lines of commands and treating multiple blank lines as
>> single blank lines, instead of giving you a real line count position.
>>
> At this point in time Tim, I think I'll follow the old adage "If it
> isn't broken, don't fix it".  But as I add dhcp clients, I fully expect
> to add more functionality into the dhcpd.conf, so I'll try inducing
> errors when I next need to make changes (if my modifications don't cause
> errors anyway).  It is curious though because those 2 lines came from
> the dhcpd.conf.sample file. I copied the file across to /etc and deleted
> what I didn't need to start with.  Something changed along the way and I
> didn't notice.
> 
I have every file I change in /etc in RCS, so if/when I upgrade installations I 
know I can see what I changed, recover if I finger check, etc.

> Thanks again everyone.
> 


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