On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:47:09 +0200 Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On a machine in a local network, I have in my /etc/network/interfaces > file: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > But after a power outage, my machine sometimes restarts while the > network isn't available yet. In this case, I can no longer ssh to > it. And I can't reboot it remotely. > > How can I make pump (the DHCP client I'm using) to try again > periodically? I think I can write a script that tests if pump > is running (with the "ps" command) and can run this script by > cron. But is there a better way? I use dhclient (I know you said in a different message in this thread that you don't like it), which by default does a bunch of DHCPDISCOVERS, and if they all fail, it then goes to sleep (for 5 minutes by default), and then begins the process again when it wakes up. This behavior seems to be exactly what you need; unfortunately, I don't know anything about pump. > Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator
