[Bug 204379] Re: dhcp3-client not setting right permissions on /var/lib/dhcp3

[joseche]

The daemon.log was showing:

Mar 19 07:16:11 dante dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Mar 19 07:16:11 dante dhclient: can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied
Mar 19 07:16:11 dante dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 3093 seconds.
Mar 19 08:07:44 dante dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Mar 19 08:07:44 dante dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Mar 19 08:07:44 dante dhclient: can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied
Mar 19 08:07:44 dante dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 3450 seconds.
Mar 19 09:05:14 dante dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Mar 19 09:05:14 dante dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Mar 19 09:05:14 dante dhclient: can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied
Mar 19 09:05:14 dante dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 2800 seconds.
Mar 19 09:51:54 dante dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Mar 19 09:51:54 dante dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
Mar 19 09:51:54 dante dhclient: can't create /var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases: Permission denied
Mar 19 09:51:54 dante dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 2832 seconds.
Mar 19 10:39:06 dante dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67


You may be right, during the initialization it runs as root, but remember that the leases are updated according to the dhcpd settings.
In this case it is an hour as you can see.

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dhcp3-client not setting right permissions on /var/lib/dhcp3
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