Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:56:14 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Joost van Dijk <joost@amiculus.com> Subject: Re: messages from dhclient Message-ID: <20050417115614.GB42258@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200504171304.48447.joost@amiculus.com> References: <200504171304.48447.joost@amiculus.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 01:04:48PM +0200, Joost van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed dhcp to get my FreeBSD system on line, a machine which I am > trying to set up as a web server. I used sysinstall and it seems to work > correctly (this e-mail is coming from my Linux workstation). > However, when working on the FreeBSD machine I keep getting the > following message: <date & time> dhclient: send_packet: permission > denied. What does this mean? It looks to me like you're not running dhclient with sufficient permissions (i.e. not as root), or you have a firewall that doesn't let the traffic through. > I cannot find a reference to it in the man files. > It is a nuisance. When I am editing a config file with vi, this message get > written into the file, and over cofig file lines. How can I turn it off. The message is written on your terminal, but should not be written into the file. Does pressing crtl+l help restore the screen? You could redirect the standard error stream for dhclient to /dev/null when you start it up: "dhclient 2>/dev/null". Or kill dhclient while you're editing. Alternatively, you could keep a copy of the FreeBSD servers configuration files (/etc and /usr/local/etc) on your workstation (e.g. in ~/setup/server/) where you can edit them at your leisure and keep them under revision control. After making changes you could can synchronize with rsync, provided you have rsync running as a daemon on the server. Roland -- R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCYk7eEnfvsMMhpyURAvKZAJ4/zI7Lp5CJHbignbu6IsVIqyvFfQCfVatw 3bQKaJj+I9PYP/E06G15+ZI= =smep -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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