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Re: /etc/dhcpcd.conf



At 17:43 Uhr +1000 17.8.2008, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:29:57PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Aug 2008, John Nemeth wrote:
>>> }   | Should this file be installed in /usr/share/examples somewhere
>>> }   | like /usr/share/examples/dhcp/dhcpd.conf is, and not in /etc ?
>>> } Yes.
>>>     However, as discussed elsewhere dhcpcd should get sane defaults
>>> when there is no config file before this file is moved.
>>
>> why not leave it where it is then in the first place?
>
>Well, it then ends up being another special case file
>that postinstall or etcupdate should deal with.

Reminds me of /etc/login.conf which we eventually decided to provide... for
a daemon that's used as much as the dhcp client, I think we should ship a
config file in /etc.

        hauke


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