[K12OSN] Yum Update and DHCPD Problems

[Eric Harrison]

Steve Hargadon wrote:
> I had some problems last week after doing a yum update on a K12 4.2
> machine at a school with 60 client machines.  All the client specific
> settings (mouse, display, etc.) were over-written and I had to replace
> the /etc/dhcpd.conf file with a backup.
>
> Today on another server I'm preparing for a small public school lab,
> with K12 4.2 loaded, I did a yum update and then noticed that there
> were problems acquiring IP addresses by other machines on the regular
> network here.  Eth1 on the server is, of course, hooked into that
> network, so I checked and the /etc/sysconfig/dhcpd file seemes to have
> been blanked--so I think that the local router and the LTSP server (on
> eth1) were competing to give out IP addresses and conflicting with
> each other.  When I added DHCPDARGS="eth0" and saved the file, all was
> good again.
>
> Now, maybe I created the problem somehow, but with my problems last
> week I wondered if anyone else is having some funny issues after yum
> update...?
>
> Steve
>

I recently fixed the problem with dhcpd.conf.

I'm not sure about the lts.conf, the src.rpm for that is on my home
server...


Worse-case the old file is saved as dhcpd.conf.rpmsave or lts.conf.rpmsave


-Eric
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