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0.10

0.10 is up, I've just added max and default lease times, as well as the ability to set a timeserver.

Record downloads

This month saw a record 339 downloads and it broke a daily rank of 1000 on sourceforge. It may not seem like a lot, but that's more downloads since December 2003 when my middle son was born. Thanks everyone, I do hope config-dhcpd makes your life easier. Remember, if you need any help, please go to the config-dhcpd forums and post. I do monitor the forums and will try to render any assistance I can.

0.8-2 bugfix

There was a bug in 0.8 causing it to simply not start. I had tried to import a library no longer distributed / used with config-dhcpd. I have removed that import and released 0.8-2.

0.8 release

0.8 is out, there are a couple of caveats about this one though. It does add the beginning of sanity checks and support for group objects.

It will ignore your existing configuration. I'm sorry about this, but moving to JSON broke the configObject backend. That will not change again until I get a dhcpd config file parser.
I had a brainfart when doing the 0.7 package, I created symlinks in %post and %postun scripts without install/upgrade checks. Please remove 0.7 *before* installing 0.8

0.8 update

I have added group functionality to 0.8, I need to work on sanity checking still before it's ready. The new release also has an updated JSON backend which *IGNORES* existing datastorage. I'm sorry about that, but the configObject backend was too much of a pain to make work with the new object model. The next time the file storage backend changes, it'll be when I *finally* get around to writing / porting a dhcpd config parser. --Rjune 01:14, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Fedora 11 release

0.7 is released for Fedora 11, this is a major bugfix release. All known consolehelper bugs are resolved, and I have updated the filesystem expectations to match Fedora 11. Assuming you fill out all the correct information, DHCPd will start. You can get it at the sourceforge file page for config-dhcpd. --Rjune 05:38, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Bad Penny.

Apparently it's popular and people want it. I've installed fedora on my workstation so I can personally ensure packages work, and have made arrangements to get a UI review once the package is built and functional. --Rjune 12:28, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Updated packages coming.

Config-dhcpd is defunct, I don't have the time or inclination to manage it anymore.

Updated packages coming.

I just discovered that the Fedora packages are horribly broken. I'm correcting that and will have an update available shortly.

Fedora packages

I have a Fedora 11 system now, so I'll be building fedora packages again.

Config-dhcpd Version 0.6 RPM

Fedora 10 packages are on sorceforge now. SLES and Ubuntu packages are coming.

Config-dhcpd Version 0.6 released

Big update. Config-dhcpd will start/stop the service now, as well as write to the live configuration file for known distributions. I also corrected a bug where config-dhcpd did not save global settings to it's internal configuration file.

Currently only SLES, Fedora, and Ubuntu are known distributions, but if you send me these things, I'll update it for yours.

The output of "/usr/bin/lsb_release --id"
The location of the DHCPd init script(often /etc/init.d/dhcpd)
The location of the DHCPd config file

Rjune 17:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Config-dhcpd downtime

First I lost a switch, then Embarq lost their link. Hopefully that will be the end of the problems for a bit. Rjune 01:56, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Config-dhcpd Version 0.5 released

This was a migration to configObj to store the backend configuration instead of the files I was using. Short term this means I can make the object tree generic, long term it paves the way towards having an actual dhcpd.conf parser. RPMs should be uploaded within a day or two. I hope to have debs available next release. - Rjune 11:50, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

Richard_June/config-dhcpd new configuration backend

I spent the weekend working on a new configuration backend for config-dhcpd. This gets me one step closer to reading / writing DHCPd configuration files directly. The other new bit I've started to implement is autodiscovery of some parameters. Currently it reads /etc/resolv.conf and pulls domain / nameserver information from that.

Richard_June/config-dhcpd Version 0.4 released

There is a new release of config-dhcpd, it should start on modern distros.