[BusyBox] udhcpd issues

[Jeff Sadowski]

--- Russ Dill <Russ.Dill at asu.edu> wrote:

> >   
> > pidfile         /var/run/udhcpd.pid    
> notify_file
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.test
> 
> Is this a typo, or is there really no newline? 
Yea that was a typo
Also,
> make
> sure /etc/rc.d/rc.test is executable, and the
> interpreter is correct
> 
> > another problem is that
> /var/lib/misc/udhcpd.leases
> > is not being populated it is empty
> > even though my client is getting the address.
> 
> Well, the notify_file gets run when the leases are
> written out, so if
> the leases are "never" written out, you'll never get
> notify run.
> 
> > Am I taking the notify_file option right it is
> > suppose to run that file right?
> > This is the main reason I'm trying to run udhcpd
> > because I'd like to run stuff off the dhcp deamon
> > giving an address instead of probing the lease
> file
> > every x seconds. If theres a better way to get a
> > dhcp deamon to run a script when its writing a
> > lease I'd like to here about it.
> 
> The readme says exactly what I want to say:
> 
> The udhcpd.leases behavior is designed for an
> embedded system. The
> file is written either every auto_time seconds, or
> when a SIGUSR1
> is received (the auto_time timer restarts if a
> SIGUSR1 is received).
> If you send a SIGTERM to udhcpd directly after a
> SIGUSR1, udhcpd will
> finish writing the leases file and wait for the
> aftermentioned script
> to be executed and finish before quiting, so you do
> not need to sleep
> between sending signals. When the file is written, a
> script can be
> optionally called to commit the file to flash.
> 
> 
> 
> 
ok after changing auto_time this works like documented
but is there a way to write the
leases file when a new lease is dished out and only
when a new lease is dished out?


		
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