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You can configure "DefaultTimeoutStartSec" in /etc/systemd/system.conf, which determines how long systemd should wait for a service to start up.
The default value of "DefaultTimeoutStartSec" is 90 seconds.
The configuration of "DefaultTimeoutStartSec" applies to startup of all services that are not of type "oneshot" and do not have a specific "TimeoutStartSec" in the "[Service]" section of their own .service file.
If possible, it would be best to configure the "TimeoutStartSec" parameter in the "[Service]" section of the .service file of a specific service, like dhcpd.
The default dhcpd service file is found here: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service.
The /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service file will be overwritten by updates of novell-oes-dhcp-server.
To make sure that the configuration change persists an update, it is recommended to make the change in the user-defined configuration directory /etc/systemd/system.
Before copying /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service to /etc/systemd/system, you should first check if a user-defined copy of /etc/systemd/system/dhcpd.service already exists.
If it does not exist yet, then you can copy /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service to /etc/systemd/system:
# cp --preserve=all /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpd.service /etc/systemd/system
After the file has been copied, you can edit the /etc/systemd/system/dhcpd.service file and insert the following line in the "[Service]" section:
TimeoutStartSec=360
That should make systemd give dhcpd 6 minutes to start, before it times out and terminates the still starting dhcpd process.
Once you have saved the change, you can run the following command to allow systemd to learn about the change:
# systemctl daemon-reload
The expectation is that dhcpd will get sufficient time now from systemd to initialize.