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I've run into a problem with dhcpcd.

If there exists previous cofiguration info in /var/lib/dhcpcd,
then dhcpcd doesn't send a DHCP DISCOVER (it just sends a
REQUEST). The end result is that the DHCP server (which is
also the DNS server) doesn't update the DNS database with the
clients hostname.

If I delete /var/lib/dhcpcd/* before dhcpcd runs, then
everything is cool: dhcpcd sends out a DISCOVER containing the
client hostname, and the DHCP/DNS databases get synced.

IMO, this is a bug in the DHCP server since the REQUEST sent
in the case where /var/lib/dhcpcd/* exists _does_ contain the
client hostname. But, I don't have the tools required to
fix/rebuild the DHCP server.

So, I'm trying to find the spot where dhcpcd <ifname> is called
so that I can add a line that deletes /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpcd-<ifname>.*

I thought it would be in /etc/init.d/net.*, but I sure can't
find it.

I can't find anything that corresponds to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if[up|down]-<iface>
on RH systems.

I've searched the documentation on the web site, and can't find
anything that explains how Gentoo's init.d startup scripts work
either. I take it the frequent references to "modules" in
those scripts don't refer to kernel modules?

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On 2006-01-24, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:

> So, I'm trying to find the spot where dhcpcd <ifname> is called
> so that I can add a line that deletes /var/lib/dhcp/dhcpcd-<ifname>.*

Found it: /lib/rcscripts/net.modules.d/dhcpcd

> I've searched the documentation on the web site, and can't find
> anything that explains how Gentoo's init.d startup scripts work
> either. I take it the frequent references to "modules" in
> those scripts don't refer to kernel modules?

Also found that in section 4 of the handbook...

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