isc-dhcp quibble
This is the sort of thing that drives non-experts crazy. init.d entry is called isc-dhcp-server, as it the /etc/default entry the /var/lib directry is called dhcp the /etc directory for the config files is called dhcp the files in /etc/dhcp and /var/lib/dhcp all start with dhcp -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/E1RE2hU-0005JS-Qw@Aptiva
Re: isc-dhcp quibble
Marc Auslander wrote: This is the sort of thing that drives non-experts crazy. I consider myself well versed and it drives me crazy too. I find the isc-dhcp-server name to be inconvenient for my fingers to type at the keyboard. init.d entry is called isc-dhcp-server, as it the /etc/default entry the /var/lib directry is called dhcp the /etc directory for the config files is called dhcp the files in /etc/dhcp and /var/lib/dhcp all start with dhcp The previous package name was dhcp3-client. It was recently renamed to isc-dhcp-server presumably to move from a too generic name to one in the ISC namespace since there are many dhcp clients available. If I recall correctly it was at one time simply dhcp but was split into dhcp-client and dhcp-server as part of the new naming policy. And then subsequently renamed to dhcp3-client for version 3 so that it could coexist along side version 2. The dhcp3-server used /etc/dhcp3/ as the directory name. So at least along with the isc- prefix naming the /etc/ name is now simpler. I would hate to see that directory changed to /etc/isc-dhcp/ and all of the other packages that install scripts there would then also need to change. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
