Ubuntu
isc-dhcp package

  1. Bug #1448657
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 1448657

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Stephen Pape (srpape) wrote :

It looks like the line in /lib/systemd/system/isc-dhcp-server.service:

    exec dhcpd -user dhcpd -group dhcpd -f -4 -pf /run/dhcp-server/dhcpd.pid -cf $CONFIG_FILE $INTERFACES'

 is hardcoded and ignores the DHCPD_PID variable from /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server.

  I think it should be:

    exec dhcpd -user dhcpd -group dhcpd -f -4 -pf $DHCPD_PID -cf $CONFIG_FILE $INTERFACES'

Then there are other issues with the file, like it always tries to run:

    ExecStartPre=/bin/chown dhcpd:dhcpd /run/dhcp-server

regardless of the specified path. Also, if you don't set the variable in /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server, no default is given and the service fails to start.