[plug] Rebooting my box to make changes to DHCP`

[John Summerfield]

> > > Can't bind to dhcp address: Address already in use
> >
> > OK, I just installed DHCP. Should have done it ages ago.
> > I see it listens on port 67, UDP.
> > So try "netstat -an |grep :67". When dhcpd is running, you should see:
> >
> > 	udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:67              0.0.0.0:*
> >
> > Then stop dhcpd ( /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd stop ), and netstat again.
> > Anything still there? Try restarting dhcpd.
> 
> Thanks Mike. I think we may have found the problem. Stoping of the service
> using /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd stop and running the above netstat command
> resulted in:
> 
> 	udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:67              0.0.0.0:*
> 
> still showing up, According to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/dhcpd script dhcp is
> supposed to stop in the following manner:
> 
>  	# Stop daemons.
>       echo -n "Shutting down dhcpd: "
>       killproc dhcpd
>       echo
>       rm -f /var/lock/subsys/dhcpd
>       ;;
> 
> Nothing wrong looking there. So what is causing dhcpd not to be shutdown
> properly ??? Think I might take a wander around RedHats knowledge base.
> 


I suggest lsof to list open files. It shows sockets, and it shows the 
culprit(PID).

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John Summerfield
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