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> Wouldn't it be neat if the server checked for the existence of a
> dhpcd.leases~ file if it was unable to find a dhcpd.leases file, and,
> missing that, made a new dhcpd.leases file?
>
> Ian Turner
>
I can't think of why you would want to do this because chances are, if
the file is a *~ file, then its leases have probably expired and it
wouldn't do much good to copy it and try to use it. You might find
yourself with a lot of clients that thought they had valid leases but
the lease file is so old that your RENEW's are NAK'ed. Maybe this is
what you want?
But perhaps your site does something special that would benefit from
this behavior. In this case, you might find this a useful option to
hacking source. Below is the startup script for dhcpd and I added an
extra conditional that checks for the non-existence of the dhcpd.leases
file and the existence of a dhcpd.leases~ file. If both conditions are
true, the latter filename is copied to the former.
Be warned - it may be syntactically correct and it may do what you want
it to do, but who knows what effect it may have on the behavior of the
server (or clients).
Cheers!
Matthew
# startup for ISC dhcpd
case "$1" in
'start')
# Check for an old lease file
if [ ! -f /etc/dhcpd.leases -f dhcpd.leases~ ]
then
cp /etc/dhcpd.leases~ /etc/dhcpd.leases
fi
# Start dhcpd
if test -f /etc/dhcpd.conf
then
echo "Starting ISC DHCP Server"
/usr/sbin/dhcpd
fi
;;
esac
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Quality Assurance (Global Alliances)
Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz http://www.cisco.com/
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