From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 01:57:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A30416A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 01:57:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AD243D45 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 01:56:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 23982 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2004 01:56:59 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Nov 2004 01:56:59 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E358911; Sun, 7 Nov 2004 20:56:58 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Gary Kline References: <20041105233628.GA33632@toxic.magnesium.net> <44hdo16376.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20041107195036.GC30315@toxic.magnesium.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 07 Nov 2004 20:56:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20041107195036.GC30315@toxic.magnesium.net> Message-ID: <443bzlyufp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: dhcpd (reprise) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 01:57:00 -0000 Gary Kline writes: > I'll add the -d flag to my rc.conf; are you using the latest No; *disable* dhcpd from rc.conf, and start it by hand with the -d flag. > version of the dhcp-server from ISC or something other? I'm running the ISC dhcp server, as I mentioned in my message, and it's fairly up-to-date, but I don't think the exact version matters for you (at least not at this point). > I looked for a 'debug' flag on the man page and didn't see it. >From "man dhcpd": To have dhcpd log to the standard error descriptor, specify the -d flag. This can be useful for debugging, and also at sites where a com- plete log of all dhcp activity must be kept but syslogd is not reliable or otherwise cannot be used. Normally, dhcpd will log all output using the syslog(3) function with the log facility set to LOG_DAEMON. > What should I loook for in th logfile? or will it be > obvious :-) Again, the approach I'm describing will *not* log into the logfile; I'm suggesting you get the debug output on a console in real time.