From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jul 30 2:30:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B8737B405 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6U9U4B25846; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 02:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200107300930.f6U9U4B25846@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Peter Pentchev Subject: Re: conf/29317: No way to start dhcpd from rc.conf (and rc.network) Reply-To: Peter Pentchev Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/29317; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: conf/29317: No way to start dhcpd from rc.conf (and rc.network) Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 12:23:51 +0300 On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 09:00:02PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > The following reply was made to PR conf/29317; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Brooks Davis > To: Olafur Gudmundsson > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: conf/29317: No way to start dhcpd from rc.conf (and rc.network) > Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:57:24 -0700 > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:46:40PM -0400, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: > > >Description: > > Standard FreeBSD-4.3 does not install dhcpd program and > > even after one is installed via ports or packages, > > there is no prototype in rc.defaults to start one with or > > block in rc.network to execute the startup. > > FreeBSD can no and will not provide direct support for every random daemon > someone choosed to write via /etc/rc.network. That would be insane. > Since FreeBSD does not ship with a dhcpd, it will not support it via > /etc/rc.conf at this time. However, you can start dhcpd by placing a > script like the following in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, named dhcpd.sh or > similar: > > #!/bin/sh > [ -x /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd ] && /usr/local/sbin/dhcpd fxp1 -q && echo -n ' dhcpd' Actually, a much more elaborate startup/shutdown script is already provided with both the DHCP ports - net/isc-dhcp and net/isc-dhcp3. All it takes to start is, it needs to find a /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf file, which can be easily derived from /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf.sample. G'luck, Peter -- because I didn't think of a good beginning of it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message