From 9e3dfa484b5ce3c35dd546f02a30a0c211cf953b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: lissav <lissav@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:26:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH]  fix defect 4034

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm
index 7a46bcaf2..1a936d5c8 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/dhcp.pm
@@ -881,8 +881,8 @@ sub check_options
         xCAT::MsgUtils->message("I", $rsp, $callback, 0);
         return 0;
     }
-    # if not help,  dhcpd needs to be running
-    if (!($opt->{h})) {
+    # if not help and not -n,  dhcpd needs to be running
+    if (!($opt->{h})&& (!($opt->{n}))) {
      if (xCAT::Utils->isLinux()) {
        my @output = xCAT::Utils->runcmd("service dhcpd status", -1);
        if ($::RUNCMD_RC != 0)  { # not running