Hello,
In most circumstances, if you don't have an 'unusual' setup, you can use the service command to get the status of the service:
Code:
service <servicename, i.e. dhcpd, isc-dhcp-server, ...> status
which will give you output similar to this:
Code:
# service isc-dhcp-server status
Status of ISC DHCP server: dhcpd is running.
You can also check the output of the ps command to see if your dhcpd process is running. Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Eric