On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 14:08:13 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2012 14:01:43 +0200 Andrew Shadura <bugzi...@tut.by> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 20:22:23 -0700, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > > Just wanted to let you know that dhclient now sports a -x option > > > > to quit the client without releasing the lease, so ifupdown could > > > > now do something about this if it wanted to. > > > > Here's an untested patch fixing this. > > > Hi, but what's the rationale of using it in this context? I'd rather > > call it in 'up' to kill any already running dhclient so we don't have > > two running at the same moment. > > Aha, I see now (I've just read the discussion which is here since 2004). > Maybe it's better to make it an optional, but still -r by default? Or > -x is better?
After seeing #610553 I guess making it an option might ineed seem better. I'd be happy either way as long as I can make some of my systems not release the lease ever. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org