On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:21:48AM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > The related topic: in the process of grepping for dhclient within > /etc, I had found that /etc/netstart still wants to invoke it. But it > will do a lone '/etc/rc.d/dhclient quietstart' and this will never > be useful in the current state of dhclient: it will refuse to process > any commands without the interface being specified. And since we > have the invocation of /etc/rc.d/netif just two lines above, I think > that it will be good to remove call to dhclient from /etc/netstart. > > At the time of the original addition of call to dhclient to /etc/netstart > (r114213), dhclient script had another form, > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/etc/rc.d/dhclient?revision=113759&view=markup&pathrev=114213 > and it was really a normal rc.d script that requires only one argument. > Now it is more of a helper-type script. > . > Am I missing something important here or the removal can really be > done?
Removing it from /etc/netstart is the right thing to do. Arguably it should be moved to /libexec since it's not an rc.d script and simply uses the framework because it had similar needs -- Brooks
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