Red Hat: Install smbclient
To install smbclient on Fedora simply use the following command. yum install samba-client
Named error: couldn’t open pid file ‘/var/run/named/named.pid’: File exists
The following error causes named/bind to become unusable and fail. Mar 25 14:10:09 station1 named[27449]: couldn’t open pid file ‘/var/run/named/named.pid’: File exists Mar 25 14:10:09 station1 named[27449]: exiting (due to early fatal error) I noticed the problem when working on RHEL servers. The user is root and the group is named. I’m assumed that the server could no longer do anything with the named.pid file because the group named does not have permission to change anything in the directory. I…
DHCPINFORM from 192.168.2.253 via eth0: not authoritative for subnet 192.168.2.0
If you ever get the following error in /var/log/messages DHCPINFORM from 192.168.2.253 via eth0: not authoritative for subnet 192.168.2.0 add the below to the first line of /etc/dhcpd.conf authoritative; then restart dhcpd /etc/init.d/dhcpd restart
