How to Enable and Disable DHCP Transaction Logging for All Sessions (Command Line)

1. Become superuser on the DHCP server system.

2. Type the following to start dhcpconfig:

   # /usr/sbin/dhcpconfig

3. Select Configure DHCP Service.

4. Press Return for the following prompts to accept the default values, which may differ from the values shown here:

   Would you like to stop the DHCP service? (recommended) ([Y]/N): ### DHCP Service Configuration ### ### Configure DHCP Database Type and Location ### Enter datastore (files or nisplus) [nisplus]: Enter absolute path to datastore directory [dhcp.test.]: Warning: Setting NIS_GROUP to admin.dhcp.test.

5. Type Y for the following prompts as shown:

   ### Common daemon option setup ### Would you like to specify nondefault daemon options (Y/[N]):Y Do you want to enable transaction logging? (Y/[N]):Y

6. Type a number from 0 through 7 at the following prompt:

   Which syslog local facility [0-7] do you wish to log to? [0]:

   By default, DHCP transactions are logged to the location where system notices are logged, which depends on how syslogd is configured. If you want the DHCP transactions to be logged to a file separate from other system notices, see "How to Log DHCP Transactions to a Separate Syslog File".

   Message files can quickly become very large when transaction logging is enabled.