Re: dhclient started twice on recent 7-current?

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:45:43PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> 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?

The following patch should do it.  I can't decide if it's something I
should commit or not.

-- Brooks

Index: dhclient
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/rc.d/dhclient,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -p -r1.20 dhclient
--- dhclient	30 Jun 2005 17:50:34 -0000	1.20
+++ dhclient	21 Jul 2005 20:28:10 -0000
_at__at_ -23,7 +23,6 _at__at_ dhclient_start()
 	if [ -x /usr/bin/pgrep ]; then
 		pids=`/usr/bin/pgrep -f "dhclient: $ifn(\$| .*)"`
 		if [ -n "$pids" ]; then
-			echo "${name} ${ifn}: already running?"
 			exit 0
 		fi
 	fi

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