Bug 1275389

See bug #1133941, comment #3

Maybe the man page should explicitly say not to specify any interface when using this option ?

1) I don't understand how to use the `-n` option properly then. I do want to start dhclient on a specific interface but I don't want it to do any changes to the system configuration. Maybe I misunderstood the meaning of the option, I was looking for something like "dhcpcd -T".

2) "dhclient -d -S -n" without any interface also doesn't work.

I'm afraid the manpage doesn't describe the option correctly.

(In reply to Pavel Šimerda (pavlix) from comment #2)
> 1) I don't understand how to use the `-n` option properly then. I do want to
> start dhclient on a specific interface but I don't want it to do any changes
> to the system configuration. Maybe I misunderstood the meaning of the
> option, I was looking for something like "dhcpcd -T".

So I checked the code and did some searching (found only [1]),
but can't really see what's the '-n' use-case.
It however doesn't look like to work similarly to "dhcpcd -T".

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430538

> 2) "dhclient -d -S -n" without any interface also doesn't work.

Yes, seems they can't be used together as "-S" implies an interface to be specified, while "-n" implies no interface.

> I'm afraid the manpage doesn't describe the option correctly.

Well, it says 'Do not configure any interfaces.' and I understand it as 'do nothing' and that's what it seems to be doing :-)
The questing for me is what's the use-case.

(In reply to Jiri Popelka from comment #3)
> Well, it says 'Do not configure any interfaces.' and I understand it as 'do
> nothing' and that's what it seems to be doing :-)
> The questing for me is what's the use-case.

I don't see a use case either.

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