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Subject: Re: why omshell when no dhcpd ?
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:03 -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:26:27PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > 
> > Why do we have the omshell program in the base system when dhcpd is not
> > there ?
> 
> Probably no good reason, other than being an artifact of having
> isc-dhcp in the base system.

It can be used to query a running dhclient for lease information (and
I've wanted to do so a few times only to find that omshell apparently
isn't built on !current...).

-- 
brandon s. allbery   [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator      [WAY too many hats]        allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon univ.         KF8NH