From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 12:17:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu26-228-058.nc.rr.com [66.26.228.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CFD37B405 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 12:17:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6NJHDs02537; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:17:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 15:17:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Tao Huang Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: A question about dhclient In-Reply-To: <471E67B3730@broadstone.shef.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20010723151617.J2405-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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