Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:39:48 -0800 (PST) From: Luke Dean <LukeD@pobox.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: dhclient.leases grows forever? Message-ID: <20051114093334.N5133@border.crystalsphere.multiverse>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I've recently upgraded to version 6, and I'm using the new dhclient. It seems to be working happily, but I've noticed that /var/db/dhclient.leases.rl0 just keeps growing and growing, with new leases being added to the end. Leases that expired several hours ago remain in the file. According to the manpage for dhclient.leases, this database is supposed to contain only leases that are "still valid", yet the expiration time on many of them has long since passed. Is there a bug, a misconfiguration, or am I responsible for setting up my own script for purging this thing? I can't find any cron-driven script that cleans up this file, so I'm wondering if dhclient is supposed to handle this itself, and if so, when?
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20051114093334.N5133>