Re: [gentoo-user] I shoot into my own feet: dhcpd installed...

[meino.cramer@gmx.de]

Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> [14-11-22 11:18]:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > (still struggling with my Arietta board...;)
> >
> > I did something really stupid: 
> > I emerged dhcpd on my Arietta G25 board (which runs Gentoo of course :)
> > and rebooted...without configuring it (or anything else).
> >
> > BEFORE this [CENSORED] action /etc/conf.d/net was set to assign a
> > static IP to usb0, which works.
> >
> > Now the boards still boots fine ... but I cannot access it, because
> > the usb0 gets no IP.
> >
> > First thing I want to get back is the static IP settings I had
> > before I installed dhcpd.
> >
> > I grepped through /etc to find any hint, where the decision is made
> > to start dhcpd, I renamed different 'dhcpd*.*'-files to disable
> > the start of dhcpd...but now I only get 'lo' running...no usb0
> > at all.
> >
> > Where can I disable dhcpd so the static IP settings get reactivated
> > (since the system is not accessable, I cannot unemerge dhcpd)?
> >
> > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > mcc
> >
> 
> Take a peek in this directory:
> 
> /etc/runlevels/default/
> 
> I think if you remove that link it will not start the service.  In other
> words, if you have dhcpd in there, or one of the other runlevels, remove
> it. 
> 
> Of course, there is the chance that if it is installed, some other
> script may use it even if it isn't started. 
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-) :-) 
> 

Hi Dale,

that was also my the first idea...

(in the meanwhile I found it.)

But the thing is more of magic...its automagic!

One has to do enter this

    rc_hotplug="!dhcpd"

into /etc/rc.conf. The "!" stands for "not".

If one would ask me, I also would prefer the ordinary straight
forward way of starting it as any other daemon via the way
you have described. But I am sure that they are higher and
more elaborated thoughts of wisdom which explain, why it is
done the way it is done... ;)

Only my two cents of money...

Best regards,
mcc