[gobolinux-devel] DHCPCD Task bug. CRITICAL

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/22/07, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
> The DHCPNetworkInterface task has a fairly serious bug.  It deletes
> the /dev/null node if there's a dhcpcd.pid file.  The rm on line 23 is
> missing the > redirector.
>
> Attached is my task with a few additions.  1) Sources BootOptions and
> NetworkOptions 2) adds -h  "$HostName" to dhcpcd cmdline.
>
> #1 is mainly for #2 but also useful to set DHCPTimeout.  #2 is nice
> for dhcp servers that are integrated with DNS (or are a single daemon
> like dnsmasq).  It allows the client to request a hostname be
> associated with given ip.

THANKS! You found the source for that problem!! I got /dev/null
removed many times here and I was never able to discover where it was
coming from. I'll put this in the upload queue here, as gobolinux.org
seems to be down (I can't access the entire domain to make svn commits
right now).

-- 
Lucas
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