On Sun, 19 Sep 2010, Laurent Guignard wrote: > > Hello, Laurent,
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:54:15 +0200, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Laurent Guignard wrote: > > > > > I took a week to work on the patch you submit but with my job i have > > > not finished to read and understand. > > > > Please, do not hesitate to ask, if there's more you need to know. > > I'll do my best to answer your questions. > > ... > > To answer your question about the running function and the fact that > pidof isn't used. I would not use the pidof command because the upstream > source was built on Solaris and the upstream init file provided in > /usr/share/doc/dhcp-probe/examples when package is installed. In > sources, this the file extras/dhcp_probe.startup.Solaris9 > > So i could adapt completely to Debian from Solaris but i would like to > keep the work of the upstream programmer. May be i an wrong ? Maybe. My point is to make the script run efficiently on Linux. > For the patch in start_daemon function, i agree the creation of the > /var/run/dhcp-probe directory a startup. Right. > You suggest to write : > $(ip addr show dev eth0) > > Here, if i understand, you would like to get the IP address of the > specified interface and you wrote "statically" the eth0 interface. Is it > the reason of the failure you notice in comment ? To be honest, I don't remember :( > I suggest to write $(ip addr show dev $INTERFACE) here... That's it! > May be it could be your network configuration... Could you send me the > result of the ip addr show dev XXXX command on which interface the > script fails ? Sorry Laurent. I removed the package after finding out it won't run out of the box. And I don't remember _which_ machine I installed it on, but I believe it was a laptop with 2 interfaces. eth0 (wired, disconnected, no ipv4 ip-adress on it), and a wireless interface (wlan0/eth1 connected, with an ipv4 ip-adress on it). -- Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
