Package: dhcp3-client Version: 3.1.1-3 Severity: normal To make dhclient exit gracefully, a new dhclient instance has to be started with -x $IFACE. It writes its own PID file and establishes contact with the running dhclient instance governing the $IFACE through some black voodoo magic that ceases to work if the interface disappears. If that happened, it's impossible to take down the running instance gracefully (thus unconfiguring e.g. nameservers), but it'll stay around until killed (which takes it down without deconfiguring anything).
It would be nice if dhclient would react to a signal and exit gracefully or if there were another way to take down an instance gracefully, even if the interface disappeared. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dhcp3-client depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.23 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dhcp3-common 3.1.1-3 common files used by all the dhcp3 ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dhcp3-client recommends no packages. Versions of packages dhcp3-client suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available) ii resolvconf 1.41 name server information handler -- debconf information excluded -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems
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