From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: DHCP process is dead
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:26:19 -0500
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To: Ibrahim El-Shafei <shaffei@softhome.net>
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:56:08PM +0200, Ibrahim El-Shafei wrote:
> I am running a DHCP server in my site, it was running for 6 months
> without any problem or even restart. This week every half of hour, I
> need to restart the service.

Are your drives failing?
Have you run memtest86?
Did you make any configuration changes recently?
Have you checked to see if a core file is produced?
What do the logs show?