From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 6:37:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp25.baruch.cuny.edu (smtp25.baruch.cuny.edu [150.210.155.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45D6137BEBB for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:37:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@baruch.cuny.edu) Received: (qmail 19921 invoked by uid 0); 25 Feb 2000 14:25:31 -0000 Received: from newton.baruch.cuny.edu (HELO baruch.cuny.edu) (150.210.155.202) by smtp25.baruch.cuny.edu with SMTP; 25 Feb 2000 14:25:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 10261 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Feb 2000 14:37:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:37:27 -0500 From: Vince Gonzalez To: Steve Hovey Cc: Vince Gonzalez , Chameleon , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the real question Message-ID: <20000225093727.D4860@newton.baruch.cuny.edu> References: <20000225085849.C4860@newton.baruch.cuny.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from shovey@buffnet.net on Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 09:19:06AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 09:19:06AM -0500, Steve Hovey wrote: > > 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. Yes, but the ISC documentation warns of trouble from doing this. --vince To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message