Debian init.d script won't start service

[Tim Gavin]

I found that uncommented section a couple of minutes ago :-D  Fixed it 
and the script works again now.

As to why I commented it out, the server is a DHCP server, it's only 
purpose in life is to hand out DHCP.  I have multiple VLANs on one of 
the interfaces, and don't want to have to track down that /etc/default 
script to add new ones when the DHCP server itself has an excellent way 
of deciding which interfaces to listen on by default.

That file (/etc/default/dhcp3-server) has caused me more problems than 
any other factor, so I kill it :)  I can never remember to look for it, 
since it's such a rare occurrence that it needs changing.  I'd really 
like to see that microscript in /etc/default go away, since it appears 
to serve no other purpose than to do something that is already done 
elsewhere, and causes things to fail in very unpredictable ways.

Thanks for looking at it.  My sanity is restored.



On 01/14/2011 04:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tim Gavin wrote:
>> Can anyone look at this and tell me what's wrong with it?:
> You have only partially commented out a section (which probably
> shouldn't be commented out).
>
>> # It is not safe to start if we don't have a default configuration...
>> #if [ ! -f /etc/default/dhcp3-server ]; then
>> #       echo "/etc/default/dhcp3-server does not exist! - Aborting..."
>> #       echo "Run 'dpkg-reconfigure dhcp3-server' to fix the problem."
>>          exit 0
>> #fi
> That 'exit 0' there is exiting your script at that point.
>
> Why comment out the surrounding parts?  It should work just fine with
> the /etc/default/dhcp3-server file.  It defines the INTERFACES
> variable, which is just empty by default.
>
> Bob
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