how to get dhclient to reconfigure link?

[John Wendel]

Joe Smith wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>> Well, if you can't find something/GUI/auto-type-program to do this for
>> you, then you can at least use below command to get it going again..
>>
>> service dhclient (or whatever it is) restart
>> ...
> 
> Well, that was my second try, but none of the available service names 
> looked promising.
> 
> I've often wished for a way to list all the service names along with 
> their description. The info is already in the scripts, but I don't know 
> of anything that will generate a list.
> 
> I never collected my wits enough to try
> 
> $ grep -l dhcp /etc/init.d/*
> /etc/init.d/dhcdbd
> 
> but that's not the right answer anyway ;-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> <Joe
> 


There's a menu entry on my box for "SERVICES SERVICE MANAGEMENT" that 
starts a GUI that shows all the services and their descriptions (and 
lets you control them).

Regards,

John