dhcp cannot start!

[lawchellie]

have f13 runing and finished configuring dhcp. but i tried to start the service using '/etc/init.d/dhcpd restart and service dhcpd start', i failed in return. pls what could be responsible?

thanks.

tried starting the service but still failed. could anything be stopping it?

update!!!!!!

output from /var/log/messages says;

line 1: this version of ISC DHCP is based on the release available
line 2: features have been added and other changes
line 3: have been made to the base software release in order to make
line 4: it work better with this distribution
line 5: please report for this software via the RedHat Bugzilla site:
line 6: http://bugzilla.redhat.com
line 7: exiting.

those are the reports from the log. dose it have to do with the edition?

[year4e]

Go To System -> Administration ->Services
There Will be two services named dhcpd and dhcpd6
Start them and issue your above commands

[robertp1984]

Please, check /var/log/messages for errors. Or even post it so that we can have a look on it.

[smr54]

When you say it fails, does it give any messages about why it's failing? Often it's due to a small syntax error in dhcpd.conf

Also, please look at the posting rules linked at the top of the forum--text speak, such as pls for please is frowned upon--many people will look and figure if you're too lazy to type the entire word, please, you will be too lazy to merit them taking time to help you.


Edit.

If you run the command dhcpd -t it will review your dhcpd.conf file for syntax errors.