a small comment on isc dhcp

[S Kalyanasundaram]

>>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at  8:29 PM, in message <45E4474E.4060604 at immermail.com>,
mark <mark at immermail.com> wrote: 
> Luc T. wrote:
>> one big problem of isc dhcp is that if you made a small syntax error 
>  > in the dpchd.conf or any include files, the service cannot restart.
>> as a system admin, I have to change these files frequently, and sometime
>  > have to let others to do this. I keep worrying about all the time
>  > that error happens one day, the dhcp server cannot start up....


> As a system admin, you presumably have a shell script wrapper for starting
> and stopping dhcpd.  This script should run dhcpd - t first, and take the
> appropriate action.  For example, a bad conf file could trigger an email
> or a page, or syslog, etc.  Or better yet, a 'restart' function would
> test the config file *before* stopping the running dhcpd (this is what
> we do)
> 

Or you need a better client to manage your configuration details.