I just accidentally unplugged my server at home and when it came back up I noticed that the DHCP Server did not start. Trawling through the logs I see that the startup scripts appear to have called it several times

Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc12
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc12
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc12
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Internet Software Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.1rc12
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Copyright 1995-2003 Internet Software Consortium.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: All rights reserved.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Wrote 0 deleted host decls to leases file.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Wrote 0 new dynamic host decls to leases file.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Wrote 5 leases to leases file.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Listening on Socket/eth0/10.0/8
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/eth0/10.0/8
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: There's already a DHCP server running.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd:
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: requesting help.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd:
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: If you intend to request help from the [email protected]
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: mailing list, please read the section on the README about
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: submitting bug reports and requests for help.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd:
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: help directly to the authors of this software - please
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: the README file.
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd:
Dec  8 16:34:45 Ian dhcpd: exiting.

If I run the server myself it seems fine. The script runs the server chrooted. I've checked in /var for the pid files and nothing seems amiss.

I'm running SuSe 9 if that's any help.

Answers on a postcard to the 'Help Andy get his server running properly again competition'...

Anyway back to configuring my Myth box.