On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:52 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks. > > I've just upgraded my laptop from FC3 to FC4 and all seems fine (the > isolinux boot failure was fun) apart from the DHCP client. > > When I boot up my laptop gets it's IP address/subnet okay but the > default gateway, DNS and hostname arn't getting set any more. > > I've tried it at two sites, and therefore 2 different DHCP servers. > > I've done a 'yum update' and everything looks fine. Also, I can't > see anything in /var/log/messages. > > Anyone got any ideas? I'm still looking into this and have found the following in /var/log/messages. I asume there's some discrepency between the dhclient and the script using it. Anyone got any ideas what and where? Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2-RedHat Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: All rights reserved. Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Usage: dhclient [-1dqr] [-nwx] [-p <port>] [-s server] Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: [-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file][-pf pid-file] [-e VAR=val] Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: [-sf script-file] [interface] Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: requesting help. Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: yet read the README, please read it before requesting help. Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server@xxxxxxx Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: mailing list, please read the section on the README about Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: submitting bug reports and requests for help. Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: Please do not under any circumstances send requests for Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: help directly to the authors of this software - please Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in Oct 28 09:39:10 lcomp5 dhclient: the README file. Oct 28 09:39:11 lcomp5 dhclient: Oct 28 09:39:11 lcomp5 dhclient: exiting. -- Gary Stainburn This email does not contain private or confidential material as it may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
