From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 16:53:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BF337B401 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maild.telia.com (maild.telia.com [194.22.190.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752B843F3F for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2003 16:53:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@swedehost.com) Received: from thor.swedehost.com (h129n2fls33o804.telia.com [217.209.211.129]) by maild.telia.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h5KNrn7V010898; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 01:53:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Hasse Organization: The Valhalla Project To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 01:53:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200306191747.19538.webmaster@swedehost.com> <200306201439.58121.webmaster@swedehost.com> <44u1akh6b9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44u1akh6b9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306210153.49284.webmaster@swedehost.com> Subject: Re: dhclient filling up my logfiles X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 23:53:54 -0000 On Friday 20 June 2003 21.55, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Hasse writes: > > On Thursday 19 June 2003 17.47, Hasse wrote: > > > Hi everybody. > > > Running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. > > > I'm connected to the internet by ADSL and dynamic IP. > > > Dhcp-client keeps filling up my /var/log/messages. > > > Makes a log-entry every 10th minute. > > > > > > > > > Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0 > > > Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255 > > > Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0 > > > Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255 > > > > > > > > > I'm running it with a practically empty dhclient.conf file. > > > Only added one line to preserve my resolv.conf file. > > > prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; > > > > > > According to the man-page dhclient(8), it's possible to > > > add a "-q" switch to only log errors. > > No, that's not what the man page says the option does. That option > keeps anything but errors being sent to standard error; it has no > relationship to the system log. > > > > > > > The client normally prints a startup message and displays the > > > protocol sequence to the standard error descriptor until it has > > > acquired an address, and then only logs messages using the syslog > > > (3) facility. The -q flag prevents any messages other than errors > > > from being printed to the standard error descriptor. > > > > > Read that again to see what I mean. Ahh.. sorry :-) > > > > Check the lease file you're receiving, if it has a rediculously short > > > lease time complain to your provider. > > This was obviously the situation. > I'll stay put for a week or so, just to see if it goes back to normal due to some upgrades or any other fishy stuff at my ISP. It's not really a problem, just annoying. > > This excessive logging behavior started for about 4 days ago. > > At least, thats when I got aware of it. > > Everything is working just fine, except for this. > > My IP-address hardly ever change. I've had the same one for nearly a year > > now. There got to be a way to tell it to only log errors, not every > > connection, but I don't know how. > > I was looking for a way in the syslog.conf, but I have very little > > understanding for that tool. ( not a clue ). > > Any more hints or clues would be preciated. > > Pick the dhclient messages up in a different log file. > > Something like (untested): > !dhclient > *.* /var/log/dhcpd > That did not work for me, if I did the right things. Edited syslog.conf and added the above. touch /var/log/dhcpd added the following to newsyslog.conf /var/log/dhcpd 644 3 100 @T00 Z rebooted > > This is a snip from my lease file : > > lease { > > interface "xl0"; > > fixed-address 217.209.211.129; > > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; > > option time-offset 3600; > > option routers 217.209.211.1; > > option dhcp-lease-time 1200; > > Yep, your lease time is 10 minutes long. > > > option dhcp-message-type 5; > > option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2; > > option dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.113.1; > > option broadcast-address 217.209.211.255; > > renew 5 2003/6/20 12:18:03; > > rebind 5 2003/6/20 12:26:08; > > expire 5 2003/6/20 12:28:38; > > } > > Try setting your dhclient.conf to ask for a longer lease. If that > fails, pull the dhclient messages into another file... Will do. Thx everybody. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Regards Hasse Webmaster @ Swedehost.com