From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 6:19:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E41937B815 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10996; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:19:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:19:06 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Vince Gonzalez Cc: Chameleon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the real question In-Reply-To: <20000225085849.C4860@newton.baruch.cuny.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Feb 24, 2000 at 09:11:54AM -0800, Chameleon wrote: > > At 03:52 PM 2/23/00 -0800, Fred J. Lomas wrote: > > >Can anyone tell me the difference between the files dhcpd.leases > > and > > >dhcpd.leases~ I cant seem to find any. and is there a way to clear > > those > > >files so they can refresh ?? > > > > > I'm not sure how to refresh the files... > > but dhcpd.leases~ is a copy of the old dhcpd.leases... before it was > > overwriten by the current dhcpd.leases... > > The point is, you're not supposed to. Out of curiosity, why would you want to? > Yeah - I think the way to clear out your old and reestabish new (like if you want to renumber everything) is to add the new to the sever config, and refuse to renew leases not in that group. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message