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How to check the syntax of a dhcpd.conf file

Sometimes it is very usefull to check the syntax befor just make a killall -HUP.

dhcpd -t -cf /path/to/dhcpd.conf
does the job

In a script you would like to use
dhcpd -t -cf /path/to/dhcpd.conf && killall -HUP dhcpd