Permanent uninstall/disabling of DHCP server

[bmwmay]

I am running a very old Amahi over Fedora 9. I use this only as a file server and I am tired of fighting with this system and the havoc it continually causes with my home network. I use dhcp/dns from my wireless router and do not want DHCP client, server or services running on this machine but no matter what I've tried, DHCP always seems to re-enable itself and I suspect it's because of something amahi has configured that even if I disable DCHPS, it always returns and causes issues. Can someone please give me a command/steps to completely remove DHCP off this system so all I need to do is configure a static address and be done.

[bigfoot65]

Hello,

You cannot remove DHCP as Amahi depends on it. If you try, it will remove all the HDA components and render your system unusable.

I would recommend you look at disabling it, via some unconventional steps. You may be able to rename the /etc/init.d/dhcpd or whatever it is called, then when booting it will try to run it. Of course it won't be found and then DHCP will not be started. An error will be generated in the log, but that is the tradeoff for disabling it.

There may be a better way, but would require some additional research via the internet.

[bmwmay]

Well that made me feel stupid for not posting here a year ago. Renaming dhcpd did the trick, thanks Bigfoot!