Eric Shubert wrote:
> Dazed_75 wrote:
>> RESOLVED !!!
>>
>> Ryan had said:
>>
>> I found this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/392826 
>> via a quick google search so the answer to your question about 
>> reordering the script doesn't seem like it would work.
>>
>> But I had been looking mostly at the discussion of ordering the elements 
>> in /etc/rc?.d/ which I tried several variations for.  When I re-read it 
>> and noticed the script attached, it seemed a reasonable work around.
>>
>> Jacob Nevins has said:
>>
>> I'm also running into this.
>>
>> I've bodged around it by putting the attached script in 
>> /etc/network/if-up.d/dhcp3-server . I don't claim it's the best 
>> solution, or that it should be included in the package, but it works for 
>> my situation (where I have a single interface "eth0" explicitly listed 
>> in /etc/default/dhcp3-server), so it might be a useful workaround for 
>> others.
>>
>> The script was:
>>
>> #! /bin/sh
>> # Kick DHCP server when interface comes up (for Ubuntu, probably Debian too)
>>
>> # Workaround for 
>> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dhcp3/+bug/392826>
>> # Bugs:
>> #  - Only works when interfaces for dhcpd are explicitly listed.
>>
>>
>> DHCP_IF=/etc/default/dhcp3-server
>> DHCP_INIT=/etc/init.d/dhcp3-server
>>
>> [ -f "$DHCP_IF" -a -f "$DHCP_INIT" ] || exit 0
>>
>> . "$DHCP_IF"
>>
>> if [ "x$INTERFACES" = x ]; then
>>
>>     # Don't know which interfaces it manages, always restart
>>     restart_dhcp=1
>> else
>>     restart_dhcp=0
>>     for iface in "$INTERFACES"; do
>>         if [ "$iface" = "$IFACE" ]; then
>>
>>             restart_dhcp=1
>>         fi
>>     done
>> fi
>>
>> if [ "$restart_dhcp" = "1" ]; then
>>     "$DHCP_INIT" restart
>> fi
>>
>>
>> It seemed reasonable to try and it worked.  Now there is no need to 
>> actually log in and run /etc/init.d/dhcp3-server start in order to get 
>> the DHCO server running.  Oh, BTW, he was wrong about needing to name 
>> the interface to use in /etc/default/dhcp3-server.
>>
>> -- 
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
>>
>> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain 
>> occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
>>  - Thomas Jefferson
>>
>>
> While that script appears to work, I don't believe it will work as 
> intended. Long story short, [ "" = "" ] is always true, as = is 
> assignment. The tests should be [ "" == "" ] . Substitute appropriately, 
> and the rest appears ok.
> 

'=' is a Bourne shell(slash)/usr/bin/test-ism that should still work
fine in bash. I hope so ... or bash risks breaking a lot of old shell
code out there.

--Jason
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