Hi, Ronald!
We recently became aware of this warning too. It should not prevent Kea
from functioning properly if you leave it as-is.
The proper way to get rid of the message is to add
"ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 750" to the "[Service]" section, although
you may want to wait for an official update to the systemd file.
Unrelated, if you're running on a Debian-based system, uninstalling and
installing Kea 2.6.3 does result in a more serious error that prevents
reinstallation.
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
unknown system user '_kea' in statoverride file; the system user got
removed
This can be resolved with "dpkg-statoverride --remove /etc/kea" before
installing again.
We are working to address both of the issues and we'll likely provide
new Kea packages for all affected versions this week, although there is
no official decision yet.
Thank you for the report and sorry for any inconvenience!
Andrei
On 10/06/2025 09:23, DDFR | Ronald Blaas wrote:
Hi all, > > As of today (using v2.6.3) I see this odd message in the log >
ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the mode is > different.
(File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 755) > > > I was first
triggered because something has changed in the socket- > name. We used
to have it set to /tmp but apparently this is not > valid anymore and
should be set to /var/run/kea. All fine by me 🙂 > > But the message
ConfigurationDirectory 'kea' already exists but the > mode is different.
(File system: 750 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: > 755) unknown to me.
Ofcourse I could set the mode but because of > security we do not want
to set the other user bit(s) > > Any other way to get rid of this
message? > > DHCP seems to be running fine. > > Regards, > > Ronald >--
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