On 03/27/10 19:50, Chris Staub wrote: > On 03/27/2010 04:51 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote: >> I upgraded Linux-PAM using the instructions in BLFS SVN and my DHCP >> client quit working. If I run (as root): >> >> dhclient >> >> nothing happens. If there is something in the BLFS SVN that covers >> this, I have missed it. >> >> Have to admit that what I don't know about PAM would fill a book. >> >> Is there a PAM drop in file that I should add to configure this? >> > > Far as I know, DHCP doesn't even use PAM, so there should be no > relationship between them.
True, it doesn't use PAM, but it needs to find the network device, and have access to it, to work. > I have a feeling this could be related to your other thread about > the DHCP instructions, confusing them with dhcpcd. How exactly is > DHCP configured? I'm only using the client and it is configured according to the: DHCP-3.0.6 Client Configuration page. My system has been doing a lot of strange things after I updated Linux-PAM, but I seem to have resolved most of them and I am not sure if I made errors or what but there is no point in trying to reproduce them as long as they work now. Well, perhaps, not 100% as I am still using a permissive: "other" file for PAM. But, the problem with the DHCP client persisted. It appeared that the problem was that it didn't find: "eth0" despite the fact that it is in the configuration file (cated from the above page) -- it worked if I ran: "dhclient eth0" but not if I just ran: "dhclient". So, I did a reinstall of DHCP and now it works. Go figure. Perhaps I am just having a bad day or trying to figure out KDE-4.4 has taken its toll on my concentration. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
