On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 13:15, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> I read from the dhcpcd manual that:
> dhcpcd will not fork into background until
> it gets a valid IP address in which case dhcpcd
> will return 0 to the parent process. In a case
> dhcpcd times out before receiving a valid IP
> address from DHCP server dhcpcd will return exit
> code 1 to the parent process.
>
> why is that? Isn't it more logical to hover around untill a server IS found? any
> idea how to cirumvent this?
It is so because otherwise you'll only cover one specific case and in
Unix world the writer of the program does not persume to tell you how to
use it, he is writing a tool for you to use in whatever suites you. Like
this for exmaple, that does what you want:
while { ! /sbin/dhcpcd; } ; do echo Retrying DHCP...; sleep 5; done
Gilad
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