error opening "/etc/dhcpdeny": No such file or directory

[Carme Torca]

Hi,
I have a server with v. 11.11, and I have seen this error in the syslog.

Could anyone say me what's mean?. It's something wrong with this server?

Thanks,
Carmen.

reading "/etc/bootptab"
Sep 23 17:54:42 sd1biw01 bootpd[23150]: read 3 entries from "/etc/bootptab"
Sep 23 17:54:42 sd1biw01 bootpd[23150]: reading "/etc/dhcpdeny"
Sep 23 17:54:42 sd1biw01 bootpd[23150]: error opening "/etc/dhcpdeny": No such file or directory

[Chris Wilshaw · Accepted solution]

It's not an error to be overly worried about - it's just the system reporting that it can't find the dhcpdeny file when trying to process a request from the bootp server.

You can stop the errors by creating an empty file using

touch /etc/dhcpdeny
chmod 644 /etc/dhcpdeny

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Carme,

And if this server does not service remote boot (bootp) requests, then you can disable it altogether.
Edit the /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons file & set START_RBOOTD=0
Then run /sbin/init.d/net stop & /sbin/init.d/net start
or the change will take effect at your next boot.

HTH,
Jeff

[Steven E. Protter]

Is this an Ignite Server?

If so, either run through the Ignite server setup in /opt/ignite/bin/ignite

or follow the touch command as noted above.

To boot other servers off this Ignite server, bootpd is required.

SEP