dhcpd.leases file is growing out of control after upgrade

[Scott Baker]

On 08/05/2013 09:54 AM, Shawn Routhier wrote:
> There was an issue in how the server re-wrote v6 lease files.
> We added a patch for this in 4.2.4 and 4.1-ESV-R5 so it should
> be working correctly in 4.2.5.
> 
> Please check that you are running at least 4.2.4.  If you got the code
> from somewhere other than ISC (from a distro package for example)
> check that the RELNOTES includes a note for ticket 24887. 

This is running 4.2.5...

:rpm -q dhcp
dhcp-4.2.5-15.fc19.x86_64

On a Fedora 19 box. I do see reference to that issue in the RELNOTES
file RedHat provides when you install dhcpd.

Is there any way this is a permission issue? What should the permissions
be on the directory dhcpd.leases lives in? Looks like the dir is owned
by root, but the files are writable by dhcpd (which is what the daemon
is running as).

:ls -lsa
total 291628
     4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root  root       4096 Aug  5 07:51 .
     4 drwxr-xr-x. 33 root  root       4096 Aug  1 11:10 ..
     0 -rw-r--r--   1 root  root          0 Aug 11  2011 dhcpd6.leases
 12636 -rw-r--r--   1 dhcpd dhcpd  12937007 Aug  5 09:58 dhcpd.leases
278984 -rw-r--r--   1 dhcpd dhcpd 285674779 Aug  5 07:51 dhcpd.leases~


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