dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Boris

On 01/12/2020 13:29, Boris Krasnovskiy wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> the problem is actually a bit stranger:
>
> on the 1st execution, no daemon created, on the 2nd execution and any subsequent 
> as I described.
>
>   killall dhcpcd
> killall: dhcpcd: no process killed
> # dhcpcd -t 5 -6 eth0
> dhcpcd-9.3.4 starting
> DUID 00:01:00:01:0d:2b:80:16:c0:ee:40:c0:17:3d
> eth0: IAID 40:51:4e:0e
> eth0: soliciting an IPv6 router
> eth0: Router Advertisement from fe80::a273:876b:598:9dcf
> eth0: no global addresses for default route
> timed out
> dhcpcd exited
> # ps ax | grep dhcpcd
>    940 root     grep dhcpcd
>
> # killall dhcpcd
> killall: dhcpcd: no process killed
> # dhcpcd -t 5 -6 eth0
> dhcpcd-9.3.4 starting
> DUID 00:01:00:01:0d:2b:80:16:c0:ee:40:c0:17:3d
> eth0: IAID 40:51:4e:0e
> eth0: soliciting an IPv6 router
> eth0: Router Advertisement from fe80::a273:876b:598:9dcf
> eth0: no global addresses for default route
> timed out
> dhcpcd exited
> # ps ax | grep dhcpcd
>    988 root     dhcpcd: eth0 [ip4] [ip6]
>   1097 root     grep dhcpcd

I can only summarise that something else is starting dhcpcd for you.
I tested this on Alpine and Devuan Linux, NetBSD and FreeBSD - all worked fine, 
at no point did any other dhcpcd process start.

Roy