Hi Lawrence, I see, you are running this with keactrl. In that case, you should be able to do this:
sudo KEA_LOGGER_DESTINATION=/var/log/kea/dhcp4.log keactrl start -s dhcp4 I don't use centos/rhel normally, so I hope this works. Jason On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:37 AM McBride Lawrence < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jason, > > > > So, if I’m understanding you correctly, you suggest creating a service for > the dhcp4 server and modifying the *kea-dhcp4-server.service file to > suit?* > > > > *Lawrence McBride* > > Head of Voice and Data Networks > > > > *NHS Informatics Merseyside* > > *a *Saturn House, Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. L34 9GJ > > *t *0151 296 7668 > > *m *07795 370190 > > *e *[email protected] > > > > Say hello to us online at www.imerseyside.nhs.uk or follow us on twitter > @nhsimerseyside > > > > [image: Exceptionalsize14] > > > > Advance Notification of absence: > > 17th of August to 6th of September 2018 > > > > *From:* Jason Guy [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 18 July 2018 14:00 > *To:* McBride Lawrence <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected]; KEA-Users ([email protected]) < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Kea-users] DHCP4 not starting or writing log file > > > > Hi Lawrence, > > > > For the Debian package, I set these in the systemd service file. If you > want to have a look, I am sure you can adjust these the same way, since > CentOS uses systemd as well. Here is a link to the kea-ctrl-agent.service > <https://salsa.debian.org/debian/isc-kea/blob/master/debian/kea-ctrl-agent.service> > file for the debian package. > > > > This goes back to the idea I mentioned a few months ago on this list, it > would probably be better to have a variable file in /etc/default or > /etc/sysconfig (in centos). Here it would allow users to customize the > destinations easier. The service simply sources these files to dynamically > set the env variables. > > > > Cheers, > > Jason > > > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:39 AM McBride Lawrence < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Right, > > I tried export KEA_LOGGER_DESTINATION=stdout as root and then keactrl > start -s dhcp4 but I'm still not receiving any error messages. > > Was my export the correct way to set the variable? > > Lawrence McBride > Head of Voice and Data Networks > > NHS Informatics Merseyside > a Saturn House, Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. L34 9GJ > t 0151 296 7668 > m 07795 370190 > e [email protected] > > Say hello to us online at www.imerseyside.nhs.uk or follow us on twitter > @nhsimerseyside > > > > Advance Notification of absence: > 17th of August to 6th of September 2018 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: McBride Lawrence > Sent: 18 July 2018 11:35 > To: 'Marcin Siodelski' <[email protected]>; Jason Guy < > [email protected]> > Cc: KEA-Users ([email protected]) <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [Kea-users] DHCP4 not starting or writing log file > > Thanks for that tip. > > I can see the kea.log file and the lockfile are present in the default dir > you mentioned as I successfully got the kea-ctrl-agent to work and there > are messages in the file. > > Where do I set the KEA_LOGGER_DESTINATION environment variable? If I can > set it stdout the I should get info on the cli after I issue the start > command. > > Lawrence McBride > Head of Voice and Data Networks > > NHS Informatics Merseyside > a Saturn House, Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. L34 9GJ t 0151 296 > 7668 m 07795 370190 e [email protected] > > Say hello to us online at www.imerseyside.nhs.uk or follow us on twitter > @nhsimerseyside > > > > Advance Notification of absence: > 17th of August to 6th of September 2018 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcin Siodelski [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 17 July 2018 16:29 > To: McBride Lawrence <[email protected]>; Jason Guy < > [email protected]> > Cc: KEA-Users ([email protected]) <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Kea-users] DHCP4 not starting or writing log file > > One of the problems with logging configuration is that until you > successfully configure the server it can't really use the log file location > specified in the Kea configuration file. Instead it will use default > locations. > > The following section of the Kea User's Guide: > > > https://jenkins.isc.org/job/Kea_doc/guide/kea-guide.html#logging-during-startup > > describes how to influence where the default logging goes. This may help > you determine why the server is not starting. The location of the default > log file being used before the server configures is prefix/var/kea/kea.log, > where prefix is where Kea server is installed. > After the server is started and configured successfully, the logging > should go to the locations specified in the Kea config files. > > Marcin Siodelski > ISC Engineering > > On 17.07.2018 16:49, McBride Lawrence wrote: > > Centos 7.4 > > > > > > > > *Lawrence McBride* > > > > Head of Voice and Data Networks > > > > > > > > *NHS Informatics Merseyside* > > > > *a *Saturn House, Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. L34 9GJ > > > > *t *0151 296 7668 > > > > *m *07795 370190** > > > > *e *[email protected] > > > > > > > > Say helloto us online at www.imerseyside.nhs.uk > > <http://www.imerseyside.nhs.uk>or follow uson twitter @nhsimerseyside > > > > > > > > Exceptionalsize14 > > > > * * > > > > Advance Notification of absence: > > > > 17^th of August to 6^th of September 2018 > > > > > > > > *From:*Jason Guy [mailto:[email protected]] > > *Sent:* 17 July 2018 15:35 > > *To:* McBride Lawrence <[email protected]> > > *Cc:* KEA-Users ([email protected]) <[email protected]> > > *Subject:* Re: [Kea-users] DHCP4 not starting or writing log file > > > > > > > > Was this installed from the Debian Sid repo, or is this on RHEL/CentOS? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Jason > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:18 AM McBride Lawrence > > <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > Sorry, > > > > > > > > Version 1.4 > > > > File and dir exist > > > > I am starting the services as root > > > > > > > > *Lawrence McBride* > > > > Head of Voice and Data Networks > > > > > > > > *NHS Informatics Merseyside* > > > > *a *Saturn House, Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. L34 9GJ > > > > *t *0151 296 7668 > > > > *m *07795 370190 > > > > *e *[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Say helloto us online at www.imerseyside.nhs.uk > > <http://www.imerseyside.nhs.uk>or follow uson twitter > > @nhsimerseyside > > > > > > > > Exceptionalsize14 > > > > * * > > > > Advance Notification of absence: > > > > 17^th of August to 6^th of September 2018 > > > > > > > > *From:*Jason Guy [mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>] > > *Sent:* 17 July 2018 14:38 > > *To:* McBride Lawrence <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > *Cc:* KEA-Users ([email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>) <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > *Subject:* Re: [Kea-users] DHCP4 not starting or writing log file > > > > > > > > Hi Lawrence, > > > > > > > > First, what version of Kea are you using? > > > > Does the log directory exist? I am not sure if kea will create the > > directory, as well as the file. > > > > Finally, make sure to start the service as root or using sudo. > > > > > > > > Jason > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 6:02 AM McBride Lawrence > > <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am starting just the dhcp4 server with the following command: > > > > > > > > keactrl start -s dhcp4 > > > > > > > > I get a corresponding message to say it is starting: > > > > > > > > INFO/keactrl: Starting /opt/kea/sbin/kea-dhcp4 -c > > /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf > > > > > > > > However, it doesn’t start as the status output shows: > > > > > > > > keactrl status > > > > DHCPv4 server: inactive > > > > DHCPv6 server: inactive > > > > DHCP DDNS: inactive > > > > Control Agent: inactive > > > > Kea DHCPv4 configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf > > > > Kea DHCPv6 configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp6.conf > > > > Kea DHCP DDNS configuration file: > > /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-dhcp-ddns.conf > > > > Kea Control Agent configuration file: > > /opt/kea/etc/kea/kea-ctrl-agent.conf > > > > keactrl configuration file: /opt/kea/etc/kea/keactrl.conf > > > > > > > > > > > > I get no log output either so have no idea what is going on – > > logging config below: > > > > > > > > "loggers": [ > > > > { > > > > // This section affects kea-dhcp4, which is the base > > logger for DHCPv4 > > > > // component. It tells DHCPv4 server to write all log > > messages (on > > > > // severity INFO or more) to a file. > > > > "name": "kea-dhcp4", > > > > "output_options": [ > > > > { > > > > "output": "/opt/kea/var/log/kea-dhcp4.log" > > > > // This governs whether the log output is > > flushed to disk after > > > > // every write. > > > > // "flush": false, > > > > // This specifies the maximum size of the file > > before it is > > > > // rotated. File size is set to 10MB > > (10240000) > > > > "maxsize": 10240000, > > > > // This specifies the maximum number of rotated > > files to keep. > > > > "maxver": 8 > > > > } > > > > ], > > > > > > > > *Lawrence McBride* > > > > Head of Voice and Data Networks > > > > > > > > *NHS Informatics Merseyside* > > > > *a *Saturn House, Knowsley Business Park, Liverpool. L34 9GJ > > > > *t *0151 296 7668 > > > > *m *07795 370190 > > > > *e *[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > > > > > Say helloto us online at www.imerseyside.nhs.uk > > <http://www.imerseyside.nhs.uk>or follow uson twitter > > @nhsimerseyside > > > > > > > > > > > > * * > > > > Advance Notification of absence: > > > > 17^th of August to 6^th of September 2018 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kea-users mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Kea-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/kea-users > > > >
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