NetBSD Problem Report #48868

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From: m.ramakers@gmail.com
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Subject: dhcpd.leases does not exist and is not created by dhcpd, causing it fail when started
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>Number:         48868
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       dhcpd.leases does not exist and is not created by dhcpd, causing it fail when started
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 04 16:30:00 +0000 2014
>Closed-Date:    Thu Jul 17 07:25:23 +0000 2014
>Last-Modified:  Thu Jul 17 07:25:23 +0000 2014
>Originator:     Michai Ramakers
>Release:        6.1.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD main.LAN 6.1.3 NetBSD 6.1.3 (GENERIC) i386
>Description:
In a stock install, /var/db/dhcpd.leases is not present, and is not created from /etc/rc.d/dhcpd (for instance). 

This causes dhcpd not to run, when enabling it in rc.conf.

I guess this is a design decision; the obvious thing to do is to touch /var/db/dhcpd.leases, and indeed this behaviour is documented in dhcpd.leases(5). 

However, it may cause unnecessary confusion for new users when enabling dhcpd with a valid config-file, and perhaps it is acceptable to let /etc/rc.d/dhcpd touch the leases-file if it didn't yet exist.
>How-To-Repeat:
1) install clean 6.1.3
2) create a valid /etc/dhcpd.conf
3) enable dhcpd in /etc/rc.conf: 'dhcpd=YES'
4) start dhcpd: '/etc/rc.d/dhcpd start'
5) dhcpd does not run
>Fix:
# touch /var/db/dhcpd.leases

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:
From: "S.P.Zeidler" <spz@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/48868 CVS commit: src/etc/rc.d
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:17:03 +0000

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	spz
 Date:		Thu Jul 17 07:17:03 UTC 2014

 Modified Files:
 	src/etc/rc.d: dhcpd

 Log Message:
 Create the dhcpd.leases file if it doesn't exist already, don't just
 warn about it not being there.
 Closes PR misc/48868


 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/etc/rc.d/dhcpd

 Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
 copyright notices on the relevant files.

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: spz@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:25:23 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
requested change was applied


>Unformatted:

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