From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 6: 4:16 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ED2C37B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:04:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp3.libero.it (smtp3.libero.it [193.70.192.127]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CD5B43F1E for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:04:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saturnero@libero.it) Received: from mocciosa.saturnero.sat (151.38.69.200) by smtp3.libero.it (6.7.015) id 3E0C6EDC004C007E; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:04:06 +0100 Received: from pigra (pigra.saturnero.sat [10.0.1.1]) by mocciosa.saturnero.sat (Postfix) with SMTP id A15423AC9A; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:04:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:03:57 +0100 From: Dario Freni To: Ceri Davies Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient in background? Message-Id: <20030110150357.577dd69c.saturnero@libero.it> In-Reply-To: <20030110132955.GB6529@submonkey.net> References: <20030110114622.6ac1264d.saturnero@freesbie.org> <1042202613.936.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> <20030110132955.GB6529@submonkey.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE (What else? ;) X-Crypto: GnuPG/1.2.0 http://www.gnupg.org X-GPG-Key: http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: 0976 43C7 CECC B933 21FE 5B16 6755 EA5A 3D4E A941 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="=.J9J_YoZk'lFRjJ" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=.J9J_YoZk'lFRjJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply to both and in ML > > You could use the timeout option in dhclient.conf.. IMHO it's a risk. > From man dhclient: > > The client can also be instructed to become a daemon imme- > diately, rather than waiting until it has acquired an IP > address. This can be done by supplying the -nw flag. Read -n explanation. We've just tried -nw and it didn't setup the network interface > Oh, this belongs on -questions, by the way. No, mine was a request for feature, not (only) a support question. Bye, Dario -- Dario Freni SaturNero @ IRCNet, Azzurra IRC Network GPG Public key at http://www.saturnero.net/saturnero.asc --=.J9J_YoZk'lFRjJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+HtLPZ1XqWj1OqUERAj6GAJsG7kqA+9lsedLiM/0P0vTggJ+kywCdF5Nd ChHgKI0VllPH0dqWrmuhxco= =K2No -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=.J9J_YoZk'lFRjJ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message