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

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM, damian <damian.only@gmail.com> 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 after it is invoked.
>
> Reading through the man pages of dhclient it seems like I need to pass
> the -nw flag to the client. However. I can't find how to do this.
>
> Any help is welcomed. It seems like I'm the only one with this issue
> (I don't think so) because I can't find in the internet information
> about this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Damian.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap3

Also, in my computer xdm seems to start before net.eth0.
In fact, it seems that net.eth0 is not needed for my desktop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 needsme
gkrellmd netmount pydoc-2.5 samba sshd svnserve transmission-daemon net


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