On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Owain Ainsworth <zer...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:57:57AM +0200, 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: >> >> B B B -d B B B Forces dhclient to always run as a foreground process. B By de- >> B B B B B B B fault, dhclient runs in the foreground until it has configured >> B B B B B B B the interface, and then will revert to running in the back- >> B B B B B B B 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. > > o...@stephanie/pj:~$ pgrep -lf dhclient > 30516 dhclient: iwn0 > 12511 dhclient: iwn0 [priv] > 13402 dhclient: em0 > 27486 dhclient: em0 [priv]
I already said before that dhclient is _not_ running at all: $ pgrep -lf dhclient $ Any more ideas?
