[K12OSN] dhcpd yum update WARNING

[Eric Harrison]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 phealy at dsta.net wrote:

> Eric, and Paul
>
> All I did was "yum udpate" and then /etc/dhcpd.conf was replaced
> with the "blank" file containing just the three commented out lines
> with a timestamp of Oct 17 12:35.
>
> fyi (if it's of help):
> [root at orion ~]# tail /var/log/yum.log
> Oct 14 17:01:41 Updated: info.i386 4.8-4.1
> Oct 22 11:26:02 Updated: ethereal.i386 0.10.13-1.FC4.2
> Oct 22 11:26:06 Updated: lynx.i386 2.8.5-23.1
> Oct 22 11:26:27 Updated: gimp-help.noarch 2-0.1.0.9.0.fc4.1
> Oct 22 11:26:40 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4
> Oct 22 11:26:43 Updated: wget.i386 1.10.2-0.fc4
> Oct 22 11:26:44 Updated: ethereal-gnome.i386 0.10.13-1.FC4.2
> Oct 22 11:26:44 Updated: dhclient.i386 10:3.0.2-24.FC4
> Oct 22 11:27:03 Updated: libdvdcss.i386 1.2.9-0.lvn.1.4
> Oct 22 11:27:06 Updated: dhcp.i386 10:3.0.2-24.FC4
>
> That was it, then I lost my dhcp. (and of course no backup file that I
> could find easily, but fortunately I didn't have any customization,
> so the standard k12ltsp file worked ok)  This was on my home system
> that's been upgraded many times up to the current version.
>
> Maybe it's just a fluke, but I hope it isn't a major gotcha for
> systems that were upgraded automatically over the weekend.
>
> Thanks. -- Pat
>
> Patrick Healy
> Palm Desert High School

/etc/dhcpd.conf is tagged with a %config{noreplace} flag, if it
had been modified it should not have been replaced in an case.

If an unmodified /etc/dhcpd.conf was replaced by the dhcp update,
the new dhcp/dhcp-ltsp-config packages I just uploaded will put
the original K12LTSP /etc/dhcpd.conf back in place.

Thanks for the heads-up & clarifications!

-Eric