From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain linux.ie)
Date: Thu 04 Oct 2001 - 18:02:44 IST
On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:16:10PM +0100, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> I'm setting up diskless workstations.
> I use kernel level DHCP configuration to set things up at first.
> I then run dhcpcd to configure such things as the DNS server, gateway,
> NIS domain, domainname, hostname etc.
>
> The problem comes when I shutdown the machine.
> When you stop dhcpcd it stops any interfaces it was running for.
>
> I would rather it did not as being diskless the machines then can't
> access there root.
>
> Does anybody know of a way to stop dhcpcd stopping the interfaces when
> it stops.
OK - I'm no DHCP expert, but it occurs to me that you could simply remove
the dhcpcd K scripts from the appropriate run level directories. I imagine
that a "correct" use of DHCP would have you give back leases when you're
finished with them but I don't suppose that'll be a big problem.
Niall
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