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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2017 21:31:58 -0700
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: dhclient not desired...
Message-ID:  <2b4edf99-2464-8ab7-aad1-303b02185145@dreamchaser.org>
In-Reply-To: <44k289ce4k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <cb57676d-8f71-9d17-83d7-2172ea6e6542@dreamchaser.org> <44k289ce4k.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On 03/01/17 06:36, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org> writes:
> 
>> When setting up a new 10.3 system, I set a fixed IP address.
>> But I still see the following message in the log:
>>   devd: Executing '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart xl0'
>>
>> Is there something one should set in rc.conf to prevent dhclient from running?
> 
> Look at ps(1). Is it running?

no; I don't think dhclient was actually started up; or if it did, it
exited because of the fixed ip already set.

> Running /etc/rc.d/dhclient does not run /sbin/dhclient unless configured
> to do so.

ok, thanks.  I figured that was probably the case, but was wondering why 
it prints a message to the log when it wasn't configured to do anything.

Gary





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