Syslog Errors

[Coolmar]

Hi everyone,

I am suddenly getting these errors in my syslog. Just wondering if anyone would know what they mean and if I should be concerned.
Thanks!

Mar 22 13:58:13 snoopy bootpd[17344]: reading "/etc/bootptab"
Mar 22 13:58:13 snoopy bootpd[17344]: read 3 entries from "/etc/bootptab"
Mar 22 13:58:13 snoopy bootpd[17344]: reading "/etc/dhcpdeny"
Mar 22 13:58:13 snoopy bootpd[17344]: error opening "/etc/dhcpdeny": No such file or directory

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

Read this link for more information about your log entries:

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

[Biswajit Tripathy · Accepted solution]

That's not really an error, the bootpd is trying to
see if you have any entries in /etc/dhcpdeny file.
Since you don't have one, it's just informing you the
fact.

Question is, are you running a DHCP server on your
system? If no, then disable DHCP server. To do
this, follow these steps:

1) Find pid of bootpd process and kill it.
2) Comment the line starting with bootps in file
/etc/inetd.conf (i.e place a '#' char as the first char
of the line).
3) execute following command:
# inetd -C

- Biswajit

[Indira Aramandla]

Hi Sally,

As Biswajit mentioned its is a warning message and not an error.

error opening "/etc/dhcpdeny": No such file or directory"
The above is not an error, just a warning. The system is reporting that it cannot 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

OR

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


Indira A