On Thursday 07 May 2009 11:57:57 Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> Hi misc,
>
> I've been reading dhclient(8) but still it is not clear to me if
> dhclient(8) is supposed to stay in the background to automatically
> renew leases. In the manual page it says:
>
> -d Forces dhclient to always run as a foreground process.
> By de- fault, dhclient runs in the foreground until it has configured
> the interface, and then will revert to running in the back- ground.
>
> So apparently dhclient(8) should be kept in the background waiting for
> leases to be renewed. However, if I run "ps ax" I can't see anything
> that looks like dhclient(8) is running in the background at all. How
> is this supposed to work for DHCP leases for cable/residential users
> that are not guaranteed to always keep the same IP?
>
> Thanks in advance.
Check your /var/log/daemon for messages from dhclient. If interface is
disabled on dhclient start and dhclient can't enable it, then it'll put
its hands off.
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Best wishes,
Vadim Zhukov
A: Because it messes up the way people read text.
Q: Why is a top-posting such a bad thing?
