Hi,
I recently installed a SLES 11 SP3 server to work as an OES server. I configured all the network interfaces to static ip addresses, but for some reason, dhcpd is being run on boot, which is causing a bogus IP address get configured on the server, which is causing me trouble.
Does anyone knows which files holds this controls? I tried to compare all files with a similar server without this error, but I haven’t found any clue until now.
This is an extract from the problematic server boot.msg:
Well, I found that the file responsible for this configuration is the initrd (/boot/initd-).
Now I need to find a way to force the correction to it.
Solved it… seems that the script /lib/mkinitrd/scripts/setup-network.sh decides whether the default interface’s bootproto is dhcp/static by the presence of the dhcpcd service. But, instead of searching for “dhcpcd”, it searches for “dhcp”, which makes the presence of “dhcpd” service a false positive.
I’ll try to file this as a bug to “mkinitrd” package.
Hi jqueiroz,
great find - thank you for reporting it here (and for bringing it to the developers’ attention)!
Best regards,
Jens