dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpcd-9 plans

Stuart Henderson

Fri Nov 29 02:41:27 2019

OMG it works!

_dhcpcd  88773  0.0  0.1  1140   976 ??  S       2:38AM    0:00.00 dhcpcd: [master] [ip6] (dhcpcd)
root      7909  0.0  0.1   732  1132 p0- I       2:38AM    0:00.01 dhcpcd: [privileged actioneer] (dhcpcd)
_dhcpcd  62664  0.0  0.1   808  1204 p0- I       2:38AM    0:00.01 dhcpcd: [network proxy] (dhcpcd)


On 2019/11/28 18:11, Nathan Houghton wrote:
> Seems to be working OK so far for me.
> 
> I ran into one permission issue with the already-created leases file:
> 
> dhcpcd[86955]: dhcp6_writelease: Permission denied
> 
> That was resolved by changing the ownership of the leases file to the new
> _dhcpcd user.

that seems a reasonable thing to handle in docs (and maybe packaging)
rather than complicate things inside the daemon.

> I still see this message in my logs:
> 
> ps_dostart: chroot `/nonexistant': No such file or directory
> 
> Is it recommended to set up the user home directory to point to an empty
> directory (such as /var/empty)?

I think so, that's what I've done.


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