RE: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Chambers
Fedora RPMs have located dnsmasq.leases in /var/lib/dnsmasq/ in the past. Don't know if they still are, more recently I've been building from Simon's tarballs to help test the latest releases. As to needing to write a script, don't most boxes have 'locate' available? (apart from embedded devices)

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Helmut Hullen
Hallo, richardvo...@gmail.com, Du meintest am 23.01.09: >>> Where is dhcp.leases? >> The file is actually called "dnsmasq.leases" (at least on the >> systems I have) and it's in /var/lib/misc. > Sorry about that. I use the scripted external database so I don't > have a leasefile at all, and di

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Simon Kelley
richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: Simon, the man entry for dhcp-leasefile is awfully confusing. Is that always a ISC dhcpd-compatible file, or only when old behavior is triggered by the lack of dhcp-range options? It is confusing, and out of date, since the ISC code has been removed now. I've re

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:29 +, Chris G wrote: >> Where is dhcp.leases? I've looked in the obvious places and can't see >> it, a quick Google suggests it should be /var/dhcp.leases but I >> haven't got that. > > The file is actually called

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:18:48PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:29 +, Chris G wrote: > > Where is dhcp.leases? I've looked in the obvious places and can't see > > it, a quick Google suggests it should be /var/dhcp.leases but I > > haven't got that. > > The file is act

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:29 +, Chris G wrote: > Where is dhcp.leases? I've looked in the obvious places and can't see > it, a quick Google suggests it should be /var/dhcp.leases but I > haven't got that. The file is actually called "dnsmasq.leases" (at least on the systems I have) and it's

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:12:30AM -0600, richardvo...@gmail.com wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Chris G wrote: > > I have just moved fully to using dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system, > > it's made things much simpler than they were. I have removed all my > > manually added entries for

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Simon Kelley
Chris G wrote: I have just moved fully to using dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system, it's made things much simpler than they were. I have removed all my manually added entries for static IP hosts on the LAN from /etc/hosts and I've "un static IP'ed" them - dnsmasq does it all for me. However I ha

Re: [Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread richardvo...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Chris G wrote: > I have just moved fully to using dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system, > it's made things much simpler than they were. I have removed all my > manually added entries for static IP hosts on the LAN from /etc/hosts > and I've "un static IP'ed" them -

[Dnsmasq-discuss] How to get name of DHCP'ed system?

2009-01-23 Thread Chris G
I have just moved fully to using dnsmasq on my xubuntu 8.10 system, it's made things much simpler than they were. I have removed all my manually added entries for static IP hosts on the LAN from /etc/hosts and I've "un static IP'ed" them - dnsmasq does it all for me. However I have one issue, I h