[Kea-users] Use of include statement doesn't seem to work (INTERNAL)

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023, at 08:45, Weisteen Per wrote:
> Running kea-dhcp4 -t /etc/kea/kea-dhcp4.conf returns no errors but 
> trying to start kea-dhcp4 fails using systemctl. 

Unfortunately 'fails' isn't something people can help troubleshoot... When this happens, grab the output of 'systemctl status kea-dhcp4-server' and 'journalctl -eu kea-dhcp4-server' to see why it failed.

For example, the include files may not be readable by the user specified in the service unit file, but are readable by root, and your config test/manual starts are being done as root. Without the journal output it's just guessing to figure out what is happening.