Re: [Devil-linux-develop] How use DHCP client?

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

I added it to our bug tracker.

Heiko

Quoting Andrzej Odyniec <an...@ma...>:

> Heiko Zuerker wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be better if the network init script checks if the
>> specific pid from /var/run/dhcpcd-ethX.pid is active and if not, just
>> delete the file?
>
> Yes, Heiko! In this particular problem You are right. If pid file isn't
> active, we can remove it before starting DHCP client.
>
> In my suggestion I assumed: if in one situation we have problem with not
> "clean" permanent /var system, case like this can appear with other
> directories contents. So hook after mountings is nice for solving this class
> of problems.
>
> But, if You give user this hook, he/she will use it and will not send bug
> message for You. My laziness usually suggest me to silently alter script as I
> need, don't giving message to developers, so access to hook can  
> generate baroc
> construction in scripts.
>
> Maybe for now automatic pid file cleaning will be sufficient and we should
> wait for next case when this hook will be needed?
>
> I'm not sure, what is better.
>
> Regards
>
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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
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