On 2022-10-19, Michael <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 October 2022 01:00:31 BST Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2022-10-18, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Why would dhcpcd have the persistent option enabled by default? > > I think because this causes less breakage in those cases where netmount, > remote syslog-ng, SSH clients, or root mounted NFS is in play? This is what > the man page says about it: > > "... dhcpcd normally de-configures the interface and configuration when it > exits. Sometimes, this isn't desirable if, for example, you have root > mounted > over NFS or SSH clients connect to this host and they need to be notified of > the host shutting down."
I guess that makes sense. What was confusing was that I read the man page which said it was normally disabled, and since I had never touched the config file, and wasn't passing the -p option I assumed it was disabled -- then I finally looked through the default config file, where it's "nomrally enabled". -- Grant
