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

[Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>]

On Friday, September 04, 2015 8:06:18 AM Mick wrote:
> On Friday 04 Sep 2015 03:46:04 Dale wrote:
> > Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Thursday, September 03, 2015 8:47:34 PM Dale wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I wasn't sure if it would help or not.  I know it has worked in the past
> > for me but it has been while.  I usually tell the service to stop, make
> > sure any processes are dead, with kill command if needed, and then use
> > the zap thing.  Maybe try that as a last resort if nothing else.
> > 
> > I just didn't want to not mention it and it turn out to be just what was
> > needed.  ;-)
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-)
> 
> You can increase its verbosity in /etc/init.d/dhcpcd, so that the logs show 
> more of what is happening to cause the crash.
> 
> Also, here at least, I have /run/dhcpcd/ with its subdirectories as well as 
> /run/dhcpcd-enp11s0.pid both owned by root:root, but this is a laptop and 
the 
> dhcpcd is launched by ifplugd.
> 
> 

dhcpd is getting confused with dhcpd... But now that you mentioned that my pid 
file for dhcpd is also owned by root:root, but the directory is owned by 
dhcp:dhcp and the daemon runs as dhcp.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez