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Missing /etc/init.d/dhcpd from ISC DHCPD

The good: I got tired of my Belkin router switching around IP addresses. So I downloaded DHCPD (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Daemon) from the Internet Systems Consortium, http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/. It built without a hitch (./configure; make; sudo make install) and runs well. I can tie "static" IPs to our 5 MAC addresses. BTW, the machine is on FC2, so yum dried up.

The ugly: The usual setup has a script /etc/init.d/dhcpd, symlinked into the appropriate runlevels. This makes dhcpd start at boot time, and simplifies administration. That part wasn't set up by "make install". (I have to start (/usr/sbin/)dhcpd manually after a reboot.)

I looked through the directory tree, and see it only in one place: contrib/dhcp.spec looks like a RPM specification, and it supports only Solaris. I could try contrib/solaris.init and maybe adapt it. But I wonder how everyone else does this. Searched LQ and Google, no luck.

Hoping Networking is the right category -- DHCP(D) isn't explicitly listed in the guidelines. Thanks for any advice or other insights!

/Quigi

Check this site for scripts: http://smarden.org/runit/runscripts.html

Hi contusion, thanks for the link. While I like daemontools, I was looking for the /etc/init.d style script, which is the usual way to control services under Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Solaris, and probably a few others.

E.g., dhcp-3.1.0/contrib/solaris.init looks like this (and would get installed as /etc/init.d/dhcpd):

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Contributed by Brian Murrell

 

state=$1

 

set `who -r`

case $state in

 

'start')

        if [ $9 = "2" -o $9 = "3" ]

        then

                exit

        fi

        if [ -f @PREFIX@/sbin/dhcpd ]; then

                echo "Starting the ISC DHCP server"

                @PREFIX@/sbin/dhcpd

        fi

        ;;

'stop')

        if [ -f @PREFIX@/etc/dhcpd.pid ]; then

                PID=`cat @PREFIX@/etc/dhcpd.pid`

                if [ -d /proc/$PID ]; then

                        echo "Stopping the ISC DHCP server"

                        kill $PID

                fi

        fi

        ;;

esac

In my case it's /usr/sbin/dhcpd and /var/run/dhcpd.pid. And my runlevels might differ.

Init Script, SysV for ISC DHCPD 4

Little fooling around and this is what I have. I thought it was interesting the distro didn't come with one. Improvements welcome.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

#

# dhcpd                Init Script to start/stop dhcpd.

#

# chkconfig:        - 61 39

# description:        If you dont know you shouldnt be here

#

# processname: dhcpd

config_file=/etc/dhcpd.conf

pidfile=/var/run/dhcpd.pid

lease_file=/var/db/dhcpd.leases





# Source function library

. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions



# Get network config

. /etc/sysconfig/network



  if [ ! -e $config_file ]; then

    echo " No config file at $config_file"

    exit 0

  fi



RETVAL=0



start() {

  if [ ! -e $lease_file ]; then

        echo "  Creating $lease_file"

        touch $lease_file



  elif [ -f $pidfile ]; then

        PID=`cat $pidfile`

        echo "    ISC-DHCPD already running: $PID"

        exit 2;

  else

        echo -n $"Starting ISC-DHCPD: "

        daemon /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd -q 

        RETVAL=$?

        echo

        [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/dhcpd                

        return $RETVAL

  fi

}



stop() {

        echo -n $"Stopping ISC-DHCPD: "

        killproc dhcpd

        RETVAL=$?

        echo

[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/run/dhcpd.pid /var/lock/subsys/dhcpd

        return $RETVAL

}



restart() {

        stop

        start

}



reload() {

        echo -n $"Reloading dhcpd: "

        killproc dhcpd -USR2

        RETVAL=$?

        echo

        return $RETVAL

}





case "$1" in

  start)

        start

        ;;

  stop)

        stop

        ;;

  status)

        status dhcpd

        ;;

  restart)

        restart

        ;;

  condrestart)

        [ -f /var/lock/subsys/dhcpd ] && restart || :

        ;;

  reload)

        reload

        ;;

  *)

        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|reload}"

        exit 1

esac



exit $?

Thank you very much, Wassinsky!
I put i in place, 'status' and 'stop' worked flawlessly, 'start' will need some tweaking.

Yes, I was surprised too that ISC's tarball didn't supply the file. I assume every distro (e.g., ubuntu) adds one.