Fwd: Please help DHCP server

[me_hendrix]

I tried reinstalling cygwin as well as DHCP on my laptop again..but still
the the same problem. How would i come to know whether both of them have
been installed correctly or not?
Regards,
Mrinal

On 11/30/06, Glenn Satchell <Glenn.Satchell at uniq.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> >Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:01:24 -0800
> >From: me_hendrix <mrinalr at gmail.com>
> >To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> >Subject: Re: Fwd: Please help DHCP server
> >
> >I have tried...giving the full path but it does not work...
> >i am stuck on this for a long time now...can someone please gimme some
> >pointers
> >heres the screen shot (copied one)
> >
> >
> >Baba at Mrinal /cygdrive/d/dhcpcygwin/dhcp-3.0.1rc11
> >$ ls
> >ANONCVS         Makefile.conf  common     dst                 relay
> >CHANGES         Makefile.dist  configure  example-dhcpd.conf  server
> >COPYRIGHT       README         contrib    includes            site.conf
> >CYGWIN-PATCHES  RELNOTES       dhcpctl    minires             tests
> >Makefile        client         doc        omapip              work.cygwin
> >
> >Baba at Mrinal /cygdrive/d/dhcpcygwin/dhcp-3.0.1rc11
> >$ cd /usr
> >
> >Baba at Mrinal /usr
> >$ ls
> >X11R6  doc             i686-pc-mingw32  info  local  sbin   src
> >bin    i686-pc-cygwin  include          lib   man    share  tmp
> >
> >Baba at Mrinal /usr
> >$ cd sbin
> >
> >Baba at Mrinal /usr/sbin
> >$ ls
> >alternatives.exe  bigram.exe     dhcpd        frcode.exe  rmt.exe
> >backup            code.exe       dhcrelay     makewhatis
> >update-alternatives
> >backup.sh         cygserver.exe  dump-remind  restore
> >
> >Baba at Mrinal /usr/sbin
> >$ dhcpd -t
> >bash: dhcpd: command not found
>
> It's not like DOS, in that Unix (and cygwin) do not automatically look
> for a command in the current directory. Therefore try this:
>
> cd /usr/sbin
> ./dhcpd -t
>
> or
>
> /usr/sbin/dhcpd -t
>
> If neither of those work then it is likely that either dhcpd or cygwin
> is not installed correctly.
>
> regards,
> -glenn
>
>