Re: NetReg: dhcpd.conf.new problem

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From: Robert Lowe (Robert.H.Lowe@lawrence.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 10:46:08 CST

Matt Glover wrote:

Matt,

> I have NetReg v1.3rc2 installed according to Patrick's instructions. All is
> working up until the point where a user registers for a good IP address. I
> am getting an error that says:
>
> "could not open new dhcp configuration file: /etc/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf.new"
>
> The file exists and the permissions appear to be correct. I even made the
> file world readable and still got the same error. Anyone else experience
> this problem?

Is it writable by the user running the CGI script? Is that user 'nobody'?
I do not know what consitutes common practice, but I created a special
group for netreg, and made the files group rw. World read won't do you any
good -- it's trying to write out the new version of the file and can't.

-Robert

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