Changing output from error to info

Simon Hobson dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk
Mon Nov 10 07:59:55 UTC 2014


Shawn Routhier <sar at isc.org> wrote:

> If I don't specify interfaces to listen on, dhcpd listens only on 
> interfaces, for whose it finds subnet declaration in dhcpd.conf.
> For each interface where's no corresponding subnet declaration, dhcpd 
> spits out an *error*
> "No subnet declaration for <interface>. Ignoring requests on 
> <interface>. If this is not what you want, ..."
> This should not IMHO be an *error*, but only *info*, because there's 
> quite a big chance that this is exactly what user wants.

I disagree - it means the system is not fully/correctly configured.
There is an argument for making it a fatal error !





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