Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:17:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Tao Huang <m0th@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A question about dhclient Message-ID: <20010723151617.J2405-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <471E67B3730@broadstone.shef.ac.uk>
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It should sit in the background, and renew the lease when it expires. You can also play with /etc/dhclient.conf to configure certain options (see dhclient.conf(5)). Joe Clarke On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Tao Huang wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about dhclient in freebsd. > Why after running dhclient, it will go to backgroud? Is it useful? > How can I trigger it to do a dhcp again? > Now I only can kill the old process and then run dhclient again. > Any advice??????? > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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