Bug 76681

Summary: Location of iface-specific dhclient files
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Dan Morrill <morrildl>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 8.0CC: rvokal
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Description Dan Morrill 2002-10-24 21:28:51 UTC
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Description of problem:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup is responsible for invoking dhclient
where/when appropriate.  When run, ifup invokes dhclient to use a config file
specific to that device; this is fine, though it may be a matter of taste.

However, the config files are /etc/dhclient-${IFACE}.conf -- e.g.
/etc/dhclient-eth0.conf.  This is Ugly(TM) (IMO.)

These config files should go in either /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, or at
least in a new /etc/dhclient.d/ or something.  (I personally favor
/etc/dhclient.d/, but whatever.)

Note that this is a style/consistency thing, not a true bug (since ifup does
work as-is.)  This may be related to bug 74862.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot up w/ DHCP enabled.
	

Actual Results:  dhclient looks for iface-specific config data in
/etc/dhclient-${IFACE}.conf

Expected Results:  dhclient should look for iface-specific config data in
something like /etc/dhclient.d/dhclient-${IFACE}.conf

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:21:00 UTC
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

At this point, I doubt that this will change, it doesn't seem to be worth the
effort.