On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 12:56:40PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Well, the thought involved in writing the upgrade report was helpful. > It forced me to sit and think while waiting for a reply. Even without a > reply, that helped. > > I did some more hacking. Of course I should have tried apt-get -f > install. That indeed fixed most of the problems. But didn't get the > dhcp server to work. > > Now the dhcp I was running turned out to date back to etch. Just > possibly it was too out-of-date to work any more. > > But installing the current isc-dhcp-server doesn't work either. > running /etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server start > gives me a FAILED message with a request to look up details in syslog. > But /etc/var/syslog hasn't been updated for two days. What's wrong > here? Should I be looking elsewhere for the log messages from the > dhcp server?
Do you need a dhcp server of a dhcp client ? isc-dhcp-server is a dhcp server. You need to configure it in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf, otherwise it cannot work. The log file is normally /var/log/syslog. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
