Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 15:03:49 +0200 From: Joost van Dijk <joost@amiculus.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: messages from dhclient Message-ID: <200504171503.49367.joost@amiculus.com> In-Reply-To: <20050417115614.GB42258@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200504171304.48447.joost@amiculus.com> <20050417115614.GB42258@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Sunday 17 April 2005 13:56, Roland Smith wrote: > It looks to me like you're not running dhclient with sufficient > permissions (i.e. not as root), or you have a firewall that doesn't let the > traffic through. I am logging in as root. The firewall is enabled, but I have not got up to the chapter in the book on firewalls yet, so I have absolutely no idea what so ever about how to configure it. > The message is written on your terminal, but should not be written into > the file. Does pressing crtl+l help restore the screen? That sounds like a very useful tip. I shall try it next time it happens. > You could redirect the standard error stream for dhclient to /dev/null > when you start it up: "dhclient 2>/dev/null". Or kill dhclient while > you're editing. I think I won't do that. It is probably better that I see the message when something is going wrong. If, as you say, it is not actually written into the file, then it is less damaging than I thought. Thanks. Joost.
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