On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:16:03AM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > > $ apt-file search dhcpd.conf > > > > says that the former comes from isc-dhcp-server (as someone else > > suggested) while the latter does not belong to any package in > > particular, so it must have been put there by you (or by an older > > package that does not exist eny more, who knows?). > > Ah, now you mention it ... > I have (very) vague recollections that earlier versions of the iSC server > were packaged (in Debian) as "dhcp-server" and may have used /etc/dhcpd.conf. > At some point, it got changed to "isc-dhcp-server" (and the client to > "isc-dhcp-client") and config files got moved to /etc/dhcp/ - this would have > been to avoid confusion with other DHCP server and client packages. I think > there was some sort of transitional package, and that would have been > responsible for moving (or copying ?) the config file to it's new home. > This was many years ago - a couple of decades IIRC. > > And writing that last sentence does suddenly make me feel old ! Sorry gents > (and ladies), I do nothing to dispel the stereotype of us being greybeards :D
Unfortunately, I had the same recollection, but felt shy of being considered even greyer than I actually am ;) HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - Devuan -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ]
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