[nylug-talk] dhcp messages flooding console

[H. G.]

from Sunny:
" Or just killall dhclient && killall dhcpcd && killall pump should
eventually
nail one of 'em. "

The suggestion above reminds me of this what someone said on IRC:
"Ah, the bukake method."

On 11/29/06, Sunny Dubey <sunny at opencurve.org> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:28, matt black wrote:
> > My console is being flooded with dhcp messages which I would really like
> > turn off.
> >
> > dmesg -n 1 doesn't work, (nor does echoing directly into
> > /proc/sys/kernel/printk) and setlogcons [other tty] gives me a bad file
> > descriptor.
> >
> > can't even read my syslog.conf because it just gets scrolled off the
> screen
> > by all the dhcp noise.
> >
>
> ifdown ethN should kill the DHCP client (on a properly configured
> system.)  Or
> just killall dhclient && killall dhcpcd && killall pump should eventually
> nail one of 'em.
>
> Or just boot into single mode before the networking gets brought up.
> --
> Sunny Dubey
>
>   mail:  sunny at opencurve.org
>   tele:  212.333.3542
>
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