On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: >> So "-1" will fire up dhclient, try to get a lease for a preset amount of >> time (i.e. querying multiple times) and then fork for continuously >> renewing the lease or exit with failure code 2? > > Actually, the preset amount of time (if you want to call it that) for > "-1" is instantaneously, and on failure to get a lease it gives up > right away, rather than wasting the users' time doing multiple > retries.
Rereading your question, yes by default it has a 60 second timeout and queries for responses from servers during that time. It will fail will exit code 2 if it that one attempt fails, rather than retrying. Best wishes, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANTw=MONkszZHEdEfoHY3rGmNUWWKHMMTqYgxzWgf_8xzG=n...@mail.gmail.com
