From: Peter Valian (valianp@southwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 01 2004 - 14:09:09 CST
So you should have at minimum 710 permission on the directory and
(assuming ownership is the same for the file) 660 for the file. I would
say you'd be ok with a more lenient 711 (or 755 if you disallow
directory listings in apache) and 664 respectively.
-peter
Matt Glover wrote:
> I think that may have been the problem. I had "rwxrw-r-- root webuser"
> permissions on the dhcp directory. I'll send an update when I get a chance
> to test it out...
>
> matt
>
> ~> -----Original Message-----
> ~> From: owner-netreg@southwestern.edu
> ~> [mailto:owner-netreg@southwestern.edu]On Behalf Of Peter Valian
> ~> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 12:35 PM
> ~> To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> ~> Subject: Re: NetReg: dhcpd.conf.new problem
> ~>
> ~>
> ~> You should not need rwx on /etc/dhcpd...I would think execute would be
> ~> enough on the dir and rw on dhcpd.conf.new
> ~>
> ~> matt...you can see if the problem really is permissions by making the
> ~> /etc/dhcpd mode 777 and the file 777 then start backing permission down.
> ~>
> ~> -peter
> ~>
> ~> Mike Husmann wrote:
> ~>
> ~> > Matt,
> ~> > Check the directory permissions and make sure that your apache user
> ~> > (or whomever apache runs as) has rwx permissions for the /etc/dhcpd
> ~> > directory and rw permissions to dhcpd.conf.new. I received the same
> ~> > error until I changed the directory permissions.
> ~> > Hope this helps.
> ~> >
> ~> > Mike
> ~> >
> ~> > ---- Original Message ----
> ~> > From: mglover@chem.ufl.edu
> ~> > To: netreg@southwestern.edu
> ~> > Subject: RE: NetReg: dhcpd.conf.new problem
> ~> > Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:14:21 -0500
> ~> >
> ~> >
> ~> >>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?
> ~> >>
> ~> >>Thanks!
> ~> >>
> ~> >> matt
> ~> >>
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