From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 23 9:49:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub1.shef.ac.uk (mailhub1.shef.ac.uk [143.167.1.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403A037B408 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m0th@dcs.shef.ac.uk) Received: from broadstone.shef.ac.uk ([143.167.23.251]) by mailhub1.shef.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #4) id 15OitR-0001tW-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:49:17 +0100 Received: from BROADSTONE/SpoolDir by broadstone.shef.ac.uk (Mercury 1.48); 23 Jul 01 17:49:18 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by BROADSTONE (Mercury 1.48); 23 Jul 01 17:49:07 +0100 Received: from smip (143.167.251.14) by broadstone.shef.ac.uk (Mercury 1.48); 23 Jul 01 17:49:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 17:59:43 -0800 From: Tao Huang Reply-To: m0th@dcs.shef.ac.uk To: FreeBSD Subject: A question about dhclient X-mailer: FoxMail 3.1 [eg] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <471E67B3730@broadstone.shef.ac.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have a question about dhclient in freebsd. Why after running dhclient, it will go to backgroud? Is it useful? How can I trigger it to do a dhcp again? Now I only can kill the old process and then run dhclient again. Any advice??????? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message