[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] bootclean, /sbin/ifup, and dhclient leases file

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Sean Shapira wrote:
> to preserve the dhclient leases file.  (It seems /sbin/ifup puts this in 
> /var/run.)  Yet if it is deleted, dhclient will send a DHCPDISCOVER 

This is a big bug on whatever is placing data that needs persitence across
reboots inside /var/run.

That data belongs under /var/tmp, /var/lib, /var/spool, /var/cache or any
other number of places depeding on what the data IS (for leases, I'd say
/var/lib/dhcp or /var/cache/dhcp).  But it does NOT belong on /var/run.

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