On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 14:49:22 -0500 (EST) "Timothy C. Fanelli" <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey All --
>
> Ok, so I'm a debian-newbie... switching over on my laptop from Slackware,
> mainly because I want to start playing with the GNU/Hurd and I needed a
> cross compiler. I've been interested in learning Debian for a while, and
> since Debian has the cross compiler pre-packaged, I figured nows a good
> time :).
>
> So here's my problem --
>
> I like to have total control over whats starting up in my init scripts...
> specifically, i DO NOT want to be running inetd. Also, dhclient doesn't
> work, so I use dhcpdc instead, but I can't find where in the scripts
> dhclient is ever being called...
>
> What i've figured out is that all the scripts reside in /etc/init.d and
> are symlinked to out of the /etc/rcX.d directories... What I can't figure
> out is which scripts startup things like inetd and dhclient etc etc...
>
> Can anyone either point me in the direction of, or send and explanation
> of, the init scripts and what they do?
You have just as much control w/ SysV-style OSs as w/ BSD. It's
just in different places.
On my woody box, dhclient is called automagically from within
/etc/network/interfaces. Here's the file from my firewall:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0 # <<< here it is.
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.251
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.1.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
Likewise:
/etc/rc3.d/S20inetd -> ../init.d/inetd
And:
/etc/rcS.d/__S41dhcp-client -> ../init.d/dhcp-client
Note that I diabled the explicit dhclient startup, since it happens
automagically from /etc/network/interfaces.
The files may be numbered a little differently on your box.
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