Ok... Some stupidity on my part. Small hardware failure on my linux box, and I realized that all I was doing was running three services. 1. http 2. dhcpd 3. dnsmasq Since my iMac is almost always on, i decided to run those guys on the mac... The silence in my computer room is nice, but I installed macports and installed dhcp and it refuses to start. Problem 1. the man pages for dhcpd were not installed - how do i fix that. Problem 2. Had too add this line into my dhcpd.conf and have no idea what this does. #adhock ddns-update-style ad-hoc; Problem 3. It couldn't find /etc/dhcpd.conf I made a symlink to /etc/dhcpd.conf -> /opt/local/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf and i got a bit further but dhcp still won't start. Problem 4. I need a quick refresher on how to restart services in BSD. what's the equivalent of init.d on the mac? -- --
"Brian Go" <evildrgo@gmail.com> on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 8:47 PM -0800 wrote:
Problem 1. the man pages for dhcpd were not installed - how do i fix that.
Hi Brian, I just installed it and the man pages work for me. Perhaps your man oath has a problem, but I don't know what to tell you to do. contents dhcp [snip] /opt/local/share/man/cat1/omshell.1.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat3/dhcpctl.3.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat3/omapi.3.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat3/omshell.3.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat5/dhclient.conf.5.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat5/dhclient.leases.5.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat5/dhcp-eval.5.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat5/dhcp-options.5.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat5/dhcpd.conf.5.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat5/dhcpd.leases.5.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat8/dhclient-script.8.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat8/dhclient.8.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat8/dhcpd.8.gz /opt/local/share/man/cat8/dhcrelay.8.gz
Problem 2. Had too add this line into my dhcpd.conf and have no idea what this does. #adhock ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
You'd have to ask the developers that one.
Problem 3. It couldn't find /etc/dhcpd.conf I made a symlink to /etc/dhcpd.conf -> /opt/local/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf and i got a bit further but dhcp still won't start.
Problem 4. I need a quick refresher on how to restart services in BSD. what's the equivalent of init.d on the mac?
OS X improves upon BSD conventions here. When you install a macport that has a startupitem, dhcp in this case, you'll see this during install. ---> Creating launchd control script ########################################################### # A startup item has been generated that will aid in # starting dhcp with launchd. It is disabled # by default. Execute the following command to start it, # and to cause it to launch at startup: # # sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dhcpd.plist ########################################################### So you want to do what it says and run this to start it up. sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dhcpd.plist The statrtupitem, in the case of the dhcp port, specifies the conf file location at ${prefix}/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. If you don't use the startupitem, it reverts to default /etc/dhcpd.conf. Mark
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