Re: Detailed startup logs?

[Ajit Warrier <unixajit yahoo com>]

--- Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 06:48:09AM -0700, Ajit
> Warrier wrote:
> > Something funny that I noticed. In my RHL9 laptop
> when
> > I boot it up, it gets DHCP information from the
> DHCP
> > server except for registering the name (but that's
> a
> > different story). Now since I didn't manage to
> > register the name I want to see if it will do it
> if I
> > make it renew the IP. For this I do ifdown and
> then
> > ifup. ifup does not get DHCP info from the server
> - it
> > fails. If I do service network restart also it
> does
> > not get the IP info. After that when I reboot I do
> get
> > the DHCP info.
> > 
> > I noticed that both ifup and service network
> restart
> > use the ifup script (I put an echo statement in
> ifup).
> > Is it possible that RHL9 uses some other script
> when
> > it starts up? 
> 
> Actually, it uses a whole family of scripts in

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Oops! Looks like I wasn't clear enough. I meant to ask
if RHL9 uses some other script during startup, for
setting up networking, than the one used by ifup. 
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> /etc/rc.d/rc3.d (for
> runlevel 3) and /etc/rc.d/rc5.d (for runlevel 5). 
> Those are symlinks
> to the actual script directory, /etc/rc.d/init.d. 
> Take rc5.d, for
> example.  Do this:
> 
>   cd /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
>   ls S*
> 
> That's the list of scripts that are executed on
> startup, in order.  I
> don't run dhcp here, so this is speculation: your
> S??dhclient script
> probably runs after S10network.

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There is no S??dhclient at all! It looks S10network
does that work though I will need to check on that.
Does anyone else know where dhclient is getting called
from?
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Thanks,

Ajit

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