booting disallowed

[Simon Hobson]

Simon Schlumpf wrote:

>Maybe this is interesting to, one minute before the client gets his 
>IP, this appears in the log:
>
>Dec 10 09:08:52 intranet dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
>Dec 10 09:08:52 intranet dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
>Dec 10 09:08:52 intranet dhcpd: Wrote 112 leases to leases file.
>
>What does this mean?


That's just the server doing a cleanup of the leases file. The leases 
file is a log - every time anything changes, a new record is appended 
to the file.

Periodically, once an hour by default, the server writes out a new 
file from it's in-memory data, and replaces the old file with this 
new record. Without this step, the leases file would just keep 
growing.