Bug#708811: most problems fixed. dhcp server still not functioning

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Well, the thought involved in writing the upgrade report was helpful.  
> It forced me to sit and think while waiting for a reply.  Even without a 
> reply, that helped.
> 
> I did some more hacking.  Of course I should have tried apt-get -f 
> install.  That indeed fixed most of the problems.  But didn't get the 
> dhcp server to work.
> 
> Now the dhcp I was running turned out to date back to etch.  Just 
> possibly it was too out-of-date to work any more.
> 
> But installing the current isc-dhcp-server doesn't work either.
> running /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server start
> gives me a FAILED message with a request to look up details in syslog.
> But /etc/var/syslog hasn't been updated for two days.  What's wrong 
> here?  Should I be looking elsewhere for the log messages from the 
> dhcp server?

Do you need a dhcp server of a dhcp client ?
isc-dhcp-server is a dhcp server. You need to configure it in
/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf, otherwise it cannot work.
The log file is normally /var/log/syslog.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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