Re: dhclient

Hi,

Am Montag, den 04.08.2008, 16:20 +0200 schrieb René Rebe:
> Hi,
> 
> Adam Stirk wrote:
> > Hi René,
> >
> > I have attached my fix for the dhcp package, I don't know whether the is 
> > the most standard/upstream conforming solution but it works. I have added a 
> > path.path which fixes the problem with the paths sent to the 
> > dhclient-script (these may need looking at I set them the same as the v3 
> > package). I have also moved the dhclient-script to the /etc folder as 
> > dhclient only looks here for the file (doesn't use the $PATH anymore, it 
> > could be moved back to the bin folder with some configuration changes). I 
> > have also added a test in the rocknet script to see if the ipv6 
> > functionality has been loaded if not it loads the module. (Again this might 
> > be better put into the kernel instead of a module so that it is always 
> > there as more apps are designed with ipv6 in mind)
> >
> > I have also included a patch for sysvinit as setterm has moved from 
> > /usr/bin to /bin.
> >   
> Thanks for the patches.
> 
> I applied the dhcp stuff with variations: avoid the ucs in the PATH and try
> sbin before bin and removed filling the site.conf which apparently it no
> longer used by the new, autoconfiscated Makefiles.
> 
> Committed revision 29896.
> [ ...]

this solution has disadvantages and does not work out-of-the-box, as the
default dhclient.conf is invalid, and now dhcp relies on a correct entry
for the dhclient-script, like 'script "/etc/dhclient-script";'.

The original error stems from the fact that bash does not have a default
path that includes /sbin and therefore dhclient cannot exec the
dhclient-script. The attached patch for bash fixes the default path.

I think it would be better if dhclient works without an existing
dhclient.conf, so we should revert r29896.

Michael

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