AI's Morose Mania
The more excited we are as developers, the more we have to worry about knowledge workers
If you’re ever trying to get dhcp to work in Linux, and the package you installed also installed a service file named dhcp at /etc/init.d/dhcp, ignore it.
You start the service not by invoking that script (which will apparently fail every time); you do so by running /usr/bin/dhcpd. Why? I don’t have any earthly idea.
Anyway, I hope to spare someone this anguish that I now know far too well. Skip the silliness and just start dhcpd.