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Subject: Re: dhclient started twice on recent 7-current?
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Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:33:00PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 
>>When booting, dhclient is started just after "hostname".  However, once 
>>devd starts, it tries to start dhclient again which fails with a message 
>>saying dhclient is already running.
>>
>>Here are the relevant sections from rc.conf:
>>removable_interfaces="an0"
>>ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
>>ifconfig_an0="DHCP"
>>hostname="mrspecial"
>>devd_enable="YES"
> 
> That's more or less by design.  Dhclient needs to start when the link
> comes up in order to work since it dies when the link goes down.  It
> also needs to start at startup because too many applications (sendmail
> being the classic culprit) depend having an IP address configured.

Any way to silence the "already running" error in the script run by devd?

-- 
Nate