Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, [iso-8859-1] Gr�goire Colbert wrote:
>
> Eeep, yep let me dig your patch back out
Erm, well, in fact, just pressed "reset", and it seems that some good mind
has think to clear the remaining files in the /var/run directory before we
start dhcpcd. So I sucessfully got an IP. Forget about my heavy patch. =)
Anyway, the "-i" parameter is useless.
Gregus
> > Hi!
> >
> > Thanks Axalon for your quick reaction to my big provocation! (I was sure
> > that saying Microsoft would give something! =))
> >
> > Anyway, the new /sbin/ifup would be *even* better if instead of :
> >
> > if [ -n "$DHCP" ]; then
> > echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE via dhcpcd..."
> > if /sbin/dhcpcd -i $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME ; then
> > echo " done."
> > else
> > echo " failed."
> > exit 1
> > fi
> >
> > We were doing a test to avoid the message that says that there is already a
> > "/var/run/dhcpcd-${DEVICE}.pid" file. The problem is that if your computer
> > crashes, the "/sbin/ifdown ${DEVICE}" is not deleted, and thus on the
> > reboot, you don't get any IP.
> >
> > I mean : if your PC crashes, it is like running twice "/sbin/ifup eth0". On
> > the second time, you don't get any IP.
> >
> > I think that you could do :
> >
> > if [ -n "$DHCP" ]; then
> > if [ -f /var/run/dhcpcd-${DEVICE}.pid ]; then
> > OLD_PID=`cat /var/run/dhcpcd-${DEVICE}.pid`
> > kill `ps ax|grep dhcpcd|grep $OLD_PID|cut -b 1-5`
> > rm -f /var/run/dhcpcd-${DEVICE}.pid
> > fi
> > echo -n "Determining IP information for $DEVICE via dhcpcd..."
> > if /sbin/dhcpcd -h $HOSTNAME $DEVICE ; then
> > echo " done."
> > else
> > echo " failed."
> > exit 1
> > fi
> >
> > Please see also the change in the call of dhcpcd. The "-i" parameter isn't
> > the same as for "pump". It doesn't describe the name of the interface
> > (Please see "man dhcpcd").
> >
> > Thanks for staying cool while I wasn't... Correct the above and I promise
> > that I'll never bother you with dhcpcd again. =)
> >
> > Gregus
> >
>
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