problem starting dhcpd

[The Doctor]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 12:06:56PM +0100, Christoph P.U. Kukulies wrote:
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d # ./isc-dhcpd start
> chown: dhcpd: illegal user name
> ./isc-dhcpd: WARNING: unable to change permissions of /var/run/dhcpd
> ./isc-dhcpd: WARNING: safe_run: chown dhcpd:dhcpd /var/db/dhcpd
> ./isc-dhcpd: WARNING: unable to change permissions of /var/db/dhcpd
> chown: dhcpd: illegal user name
> ./isc-dhcpd: WARNING: unable to change permissions of 
> /var/db/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
> Starting dhcpd.
> ./isc-dhcpd: WARNING: failed to start dhcpd
> 
> 
> 
> /etc/passwd:
> 
> dhcpd:*:136:136::0:0:ISC DHCP daemon:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
> 
> 
> /etc/group:
> 
> dhcpd:*:136:
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Christoph
>

Have you tried a pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd ?

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