Syntax checker ?

[Jóhann B. Guðmundsson]

Brilliant guys

Am building central configuration server for both FreeRadius and DHCP
that will push configuration files to 3 diffrent servers
since im almost done with the radius setup ( I just have to
add to the script on the server side to check if radius
is running after it recevied the new configuration if not copy
the old files back and restart, will add that on monday and add
dialup password attribute to the radius ldap schema move the adsl users
entry from the users file and into ldap.
Dont think students and staff are *smart* enough to know if they would
change their passwords they would have to change it also on their routers
at home so adding a dialpassword attribute would save a lot of headache).

Then I'll fetch latest DHCP and start upgrading it from 2 to 3
and cleaning up couple of legacy problems on the way;).
Also noticed that you can now include files Nice :)
Gonna play with the failover little bit..

If any is intressted I can post scripts and configurations and docs
of the implementation...

Thanks for quick answers..


Best regards
            Johann B.

> Hi Johann,
>
> dhcpd -t -cf /path/config-file
>
> From the man page:
>
> The DHCP server reads two files on startup: a  configuration
>      file,  and  a lease database.   If the -t flag is specified,
>      the server will  simply  test  the  configuration  file  for
>      correct  syntax, but will not attempt to perform any network
>      operations.   This can be used to test the a new  configura-
>      tion file automatically before installing it.
>
> The -T flag can be used to test the lease database file in a
>      similar way.
>
> Dhcpd can be made to use  an  alternate  configuration  file
>      with  the  -cf flag, or an alternate lease file with the -lf
>      flag.   Because of the importance of using  the  same  lease
>      database  at  all  times  when  running dhcpd in production,
>      these options should be used only for testing lease files or
>      database files in a non-production environment.
>
> We just created a dhcpd.test script that runs the above command, and make
> it
> a policy to ALWAYS run dhcpd.test before restarting DHCP after a change.
>
> HTH,
>
> Alex
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org
>> [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of "Jóhann B.
>> Guðmundsson"
>> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 6:45 AM
>> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
>> Subject: Syntax checker ?
>>
>>
>> Is there any syntax checker to parse large DHCP files ?
>>
>> Best Regards
>>                    Jóhann B.
>>
>> --
>> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson. RHCE,CCSA
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>> Johann B. Gudmundsson. RHCE,CCSA
>> Unix System Engineer.
>> IT Management.
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