Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 21:58:22 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: mueller6724@bellsouth.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: disabling dhclient Message-ID: <55e3deee.rst6YFxS1jQ%2BSXFE%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <15727.94738.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <55e25852.0Xpg4zY1btmbpx9Z%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <CAHu1Y73vEKyNsjJ=_fBYq7D-d7_qdoGDeJ2TKkC3XzN-3sWGUQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAHu1Y723DFkBBmMG9f5tJb=iAfW4L4dC5EeAX124Vn4yvm3Riw@mail.gmail.com> <55e282fc.s%2BOSZJ/KaD3iwr7U%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <15727.94738.bm@smtp116.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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"Thomas Mueller" <mueller6724@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I don't have ifconfig in /etc/rc.conf, dhclient never runs > automatically on my system. This is true for both FreeBSD > and NetBSD. That used to be true for this system also (or, if it ran, it didn't do anything). I don't know what changed. > There is a line in /etc/defaults/rc.conf > > dhclient_program="/sbin/dhclient" # Path to dhcp client program. > > Setting dhclient_program="/usr/bin/true" in /etc/rc.conf would > avoid the need to hack dhclient itself That still seems in the sledgehammer category, since I doubt it's the intended use of the knob (which is more likely intended to select a different DHCP client, perhaps from a port). However, it's worth a try. I suspect /bin/sync may be a better choice than /usr/bin/true, since devd can potentially fire up before /usr has been mounted; alternatively one could copy /usr/bin/true into /bin or /sbin (but then we are back to hacking on the system rather than configuring it). > I don't know if this would prevent dhclient from working from the > command line. If I'm understanding the /etc/dhclient script correctly, it would effectively disable that script -- which is perfectly OK for this particular situation. I would not expect any effect on running /sbin/dhclient directly.
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