dhclient no verbose output?

[mattypoppins]

Hi guys,

I am having trouble with dhclient on FC4 - everytime I run it, the program appears to work, however there is no verbose output to tell me what is going on. I have checked the man pages but this didn't help

Can anybody tell me where im going wrong?

Cheers,
Matt

[Zotter]

Run:

ifconfig

before dhclient - and again after - you'll see the difference it things are working.

[mattypoppins]

Thanks Zotter! I think I should go and learn what these tools do!

[mattypoppins]

Strange - it didnt appear top make a difference:-

[matt@ganpak ~]$ /sbin/dhclient
[matt@ganpak ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BF:E6:3B:23
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::250:bfff:fee6:3b23/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:97 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:10982 (10.7 KiB) TX bytes:11776 (11.5 KiB)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xbc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2298 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3398292 (3.2 MiB) TX bytes:3398292 (3.2 MiB)

[matt@ganpak ~]$ /sbin/dhclient
[matt@ganpak ~]$

[chili555]

Open a terminal window, as su, run tail -f /var/log/messages. Open another terminal window, run /sbin/dhclient. The verbose output will appear in messages.

[mattypoppins]

This is strange - I have had it working before I rebuilt my machine..... And ive since build another fedora box and it displays the same behavior...