Can't 'dhcpd -d' in background ?
Joe Bill
pica1dilly at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 13 12:27:40 UTC 2006
run 'dhcpd' as root, off it goes on it's own, running in the background.
run 'dhcpd -d', there it runs in the foreground, locking up your terminal.
What's the '-d' option ?
man dhcpd says about the '-d' option:
"To have dhcpd log to the standard error descriptor, specify the -d flag. This can be useful for debugging, and also it sites where a complete log of all dhcp activity must be kept but syslogd is not reliable or otherwise cannot be used."
Nothing about 'dhcpd -d' running in the foreground instead of the default background behavor when 'dhcpd' is invoked without the '-d' option. Why is the behavior different then ?
Furthermore, still in man dhcpd, we can read about a '-f' option:
"To run dhcpd as a foreground process, rather than allowing it to run as a daemon in the background, the -f flag should be specified."
Tried 'dhcpd -d -f', just in case. Unfortunately, dhcpd still won't run in the background.
So, how do you do it, running 'dhcpd - d' in background ? If you can't,
Buzz,
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