Hasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 19 June 2003 17.47, Hasse wrote: > > Hi everybody. > > Running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable. > > I'm connected to the internet by ADSL and dynamic IP. > > Dhcp-client keeps filling up my /var/log/messages. > > Makes a log-entry every 10th minute. > > > > <snip> > > Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0 > > Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255 > > Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0 > > Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255 > > </snip> > > > > I'm running it with a practically empty dhclient.conf file. > > Only added one line to preserve my resolv.conf file. > > prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; > > > > According to the man-page dhclient(8), it's possible to > > add a "-q" switch to only log errors.
No, that's not what the man page says the option does. That option keeps anything but errors being sent to standard error; it has no relationship to the system log. > > <snip> > > The client normally prints a startup message and displays the protocol > > sequence to the standard error descriptor until it has acquired > > an address, and then only logs messages using the syslog (3) facility. > > The -q flag prevents any messages other than errors from being printed to > > the standard error descriptor. > > </snip> Read that again to see what I mean. > > Check the lease file you're receiving, if it has a rediculously short > > lease time complain to your provider. This was obviously the situation. > This excessive logging behavior started for about 4 days ago. > At least, thats when I got aware of it. > Everything is working just fine, except for this. > My IP-address hardly ever change. I've had the same one for nearly a year now. > There got to be a way to tell it to only log errors, not every connection, > but I don't know how. > I was looking for a way in the syslog.conf, but I have very little > understanding for that tool. ( not a clue ). > Any more hints or clues would be preciated. Pick the dhclient messages up in a different log file. Something like (untested): !dhclient *.* /var/log/dhcpd > This is a snip from my lease file : > lease { > interface "xl0"; > fixed-address 217.209.211.129; > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; > option time-offset 3600; > option routers 217.209.211.1; > option dhcp-lease-time 1200; Yep, your lease time is 10 minutes long. > option dhcp-message-type 5; > option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2; > option dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.113.1; > option broadcast-address 217.209.211.255; > renew 5 2003/6/20 12:18:03; > rebind 5 2003/6/20 12:26:08; > expire 5 2003/6/20 12:28:38; > } Try setting your dhclient.conf to ask for a longer lease. If that fails, pull the dhclient messages into another file... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"