Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd always shows "crashed" even though it's running

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:47:34 PM Dale wrote:
> Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:09:02 PM Mike Edenfield wrote:
> >> For some reason, whenever I check the status of my startup scripts,
> >> dhcpd registers as "crashed". However, dhcpd is up and running and
> >> working fine. Normally I don't worry about it, but on those occasions
> >> where dhcpd does stop working, it's hard to tell if it's "fixed" or not.
> >>
> >> What makes rc-status think something is crashed, and how can I fix this?
> >>
> >> basement log # rc-status -v | grep crashed
> >>   dhcpd [  crashed  ]
> >> basement log # ps aux | grep dhcpd
> >> root      2214  0.0  0.0   8268   876 pts/0    S+   19:47   0:00 grep
> >> --colour=auto dhcpd
> >> dhcp      2648  0.0  0.6  30028 12136 ?        Ss   Aug29   0:00
> >> /usr/sbin/dhcpd -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf -q -pf /var/run/dhcp/dhcpd.pid
> >> -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpd.leases -user dhcp -group dhcp -chroot
> >> /chroot/dhcp enp0s7
> >>
> >>
> > This is just a guess but it could be the permissions on the pid file on
> > /chroot/dhcp/var/run/dhcp/. So stop the daemon, delete the file, check that
the 
> > directory is owned by dhcp:dhcp and start the daemon again.
> >
>
>
> I don't know if this will help or not but don't forget the zap option.
>
> root@fireball / # /etc/init.d/dhcpcd  <tab twice>
> broken   ineed    iuse     needsme  pause    restart  start    status
> stop     usesme   zap
> root@fireball / # /etc/init.d/dhcpcd
>
> It's been a long time since I used it but if I recall correctly that
> resets the status.  I think it stops and deletes any files that stores
> its run status.
>
> If that doesn't apply, just ignore me.  Heck, a lot of people ignore
> me.  lol
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>

It does. I knew about it but never used it and didn't know what it'll do if 
the permissions are wrong so I thought I'd minimize the chances of being 
wrong.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez