DHCP issues 1

	I posted previously about the issues I am having.  Nothing I tried, 
including completely purging and reinstalling isc-dhcp-server, would get 
DHCP to work on my secondary server, so I completely wiped the server 
and reloaded the OS.  The server is mostly working now, but there are 
still some annoying issues. Stopping, starting, and restarting the 
server don't quite work properly.

	1.  Systemd reports a spurious error when starting the server from a 
clean slate.

  isc-dhcp-server.service - LSB: DHCP server
      Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server; generated)
      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2022-06-01 13:21:26 
CDT; 1min 10s ago
        Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
     Process: 19134 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/isc-dhcp-server start 
(code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
       Tasks: 4 (limit: 4461)
      Memory: 4.8M
         CPU: 124ms
      CGroup: /system.slice/isc-dhcp-server.service
  /usr/sbin/dhcpd -4 -q -cf /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf enp11s0

Jun 01 13:21:24 Backup dhcpd[19159]:
Jun 01 13:21:24 Backup dhcpd[19159]: exiting.
Jun 01 13:21:26 Backup isc-dhcp-server[19134]: Starting ISC DHCPv6 
server: dhcpd6check syslog for diagnostics. ...
Jun 01 13:21:26 Backup isc-dhcp-server[19164]:  failed!
Jun 01 13:21:26 Backup isc-dhcp-server[19165]:  failed!

	It doesn't say what the error is, but the exit code is 1. This causes 
the system to think the server has failed to start, but it does load and 
remains in memory.  It seem to be working pretty well.  Is there some 
way to get the server to report a bit more in the way of diagnostics, 
perhaps in the log, or even just stderr?  Obviously, this isn't a show 
stopper, but it is a bit annoying, and it is possible there is something 
a bit more insidious going on.

	I tried running the server from the CL with the -d option, but it 
doesn't produce any output.
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