Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-24 Thread damian
> I had a similar problem with my machine when I first started using > Gentoo, but I then discovered sys-apps/netplug. Install that and all > should be well. You might want to check your RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING > variable (in /etc/conf.d/rc) is the way you want it, but otherwise > there isn't any ex

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Dan Wallis
On 23/11/2008, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as a daemon) right

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
> You wanted to pass options to your dhcp client. The page mentioned > shows two ways of doing that: > 1) By setting the variable dhcp_eth0 to a space-delimited string of > options, like > dhcp_eth0="release nodns nontp nonis" > These generic options work for any of the dhclient, dhcpcd, pump and

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I > modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was > faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2 > duo laptop t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
Hi again, Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2 duo laptop to drop the login prompt without X, wireless supplicant, cron daemon or sound.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread Markos Chandras
On Sunday 23 November 2008 14:20:51 damian wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as a daemon) right af

[gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-23 Thread damian
Hello, When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background (as a daemon) right after it is invoked. Reading through the man pages of dhclient