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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14303

           Summary: ifupdown broken when dhcp installed
           Product: Codex
           Version: test grimoire
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P2
         Component: net
        AssignedTo: sm-grimoire-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: sobukus AT sourcemage.org


My first experience with the nifty new networking:

bash-3.2# cat /etc/network/interfaces 
iface eth0 inet dhcp

bash-3.2# strace ifup eth0
execve("/sbin/ifup", ["ifup", "eth0"], [/* 40 vars */]) = 0
[...]
open("/etc/network/run/ifstate", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = 3
[...]
open("/etc/network/run/.ifstate.tmp", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 4
[...]
rename("/etc/network/run/.ifstate.tmp", "/etc/network/run/ifstate") = 0
[...]
stat64("/sbin/dhclient3", 0xbfae50b4)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or 
directory)
stat64("/sbin/dhclient", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1418015, ...}) = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, 
child_tidptr=0xb7dd0708) = 12302
/var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: interface name too long (is 26)

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exiting.


The problem seems to be that it finds dhclient installed and tries to use it, 
but doesn't actually know 
how to do so correctly.
I made it work like that:

bash-3.2# mv /sbin/dhclient{,_moved}

Now it seems to use dhcpcd and is happy (happier than me, at least).
Is our dhclient version odd? Or is this an upstream ifupdown bug?

I also see in horror that the strace shows me those write-enabled open() 
lines on files in /etc.
I really would like stuff in /etc to be static... can we change these files 
to /var/run or something?

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