Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to start a dhcpd daemon in my machine, but I'm having no
>success. I followed the steps found at 
>
>http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/dhcp.html
>
>but without success.
>
>Running (or trying to):
>
># /etc/rc.d/dhcpd forcestart
>Starting dhcpd.
># /etc/rc.d/dhcpd forcestop
>dhcpd not running? (check /var/run/dhcpd.pid).
># 
>
>I get the message dhcpd is starting but actually it's not.
>
>What's wrong?
>
>Thank you.
>  
>

Check your logs for messages output by dhcpd.  (there's also a flag that 
causes it to hang on to stdout/stderr)  Most likely there's a problem 
with your config, or the leases file.

+j


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