ERROR RELATED TO BOOTPTAB

[deepuanil]

HAI ALL
IN HP UX 11.11 SYS LOG IS SHOWING THE ERRORS AS FOLLOWING LINES

reading "/etc/bootptab"
read 1 entries from "/etc/bootptab"
reading "/etc/dhcpdeny"
error opening "/etc/dhcpdeny": No such file or directory

WHAT IT MEANS , HOW CAN BE RESOLVED IF ANY PROBLEM IS THERE

DAMU

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Damu,

No need to worry abou it, system couldn;t find /etc/dhcpdeny file..

# touch /etc/dhcpdeny
# chmod 644 /etc/dhcpdeny

I think, it is Ignite server. You can also
edit the /etc/rc.config.d/netdaemons file & set START_RBOOTD=0

-Arun

[deepuanil]

hai

this is not an ignite server

arun can you explain wy this message is coming

damu

[LoC_1]

The following is from the bootpd(1M) man page:

When bootpd receives a DHCP/BOOTP request, it first checks if the
hardware address of the client is listed in the /etc/dhcpdeny
database. ...

If /etc/dhcpdeny does not exist, then the error message will be logged to
syslog.

> How can I avoid this messages ?

Create the /etc/dhcpdeny file according to bootpd(1M):

The configuration file /etc/dhcpdeny contains the list of hardware
addresses, one address per line, for clients that will not be served
by our server.

This is an example of a /etc/dhcpdeny file:

# Sample /etc/dhcpdeny file
080009000001
0x080009000002
# Above two clients will not be served!
Louis

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi Damu,
This is what the link below talks about.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90775/ch03s01.html

Regards,

[Kent Ostby]

What this means is that someone has made a request to the server to be use bootp.

The server has checked bootptab and read an entry, but it is missing this other file so it logs the error message.

You can:

1) Ignore the error message

or

2) Create the file with "touch /etc/dhcpdeny"

or

3) Turn off bootp on this machine

[deepuanil]

I CLOSED THE ISSUE BY TURNING OF THE BOOTPTAB