[Bug 1186662] Re: isc-dhcp-server fails to renew lease file

[Jamie Strandboge]

The changes in 4.4.4-5ubuntu9 on xenial are essentially the same as what
I put in the ppa for trusty in terms of the directory permissions (note,
trusty also updates the PARANOIA patch which xenial already had). Can
trusty users comment on if the ppa packages for trusty fixes the issues
for you?

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Title:
  isc-dhcp-server fails to renew lease file

Status in isc-dhcp package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in isc-dhcp source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  After raring upgrade, the dhcp server fails to renew lease file when
  it tries to (about every hour).

  The syslog says:
  dhcpd: Can't create new lease file: Permission denied

  It looks like a permission problem, because

  # chown -R dhcpd:dhcpd /var/lib/dhcp

  the above command temporarily solves the issue, until dhcpd is
  restarted: at that time, the ownership of the directory and the lease
  file is set back to root:root.

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