messages from dhclient

[Joost van Dijk]

On Sunday 17 April 2005 13:56, Roland Smith wrote:
> It looks to me like you're not running dhclient with sufficient
> permissions (i.e. not as root), or you have a firewall that doesn't let the
> traffic through.

I am logging in as root. 
The firewall is enabled, but I have not got up to the chapter in the book on 
firewalls yet, so I have absolutely no idea what so ever about how to 
configure it. 

> The message is written on your terminal, but should not be written into
> the file. Does pressing crtl+l help restore the screen?

That sounds like a very useful tip. I shall try it next time it happens.
 
> You could redirect the standard error stream for dhclient to /dev/null
> when you start it up: "dhclient 2>/dev/null". Or kill dhclient while
> you're editing.

I think I won't do that. It is probably better that I see the message when 
something is going wrong. If, as you say, it is not actually written into the 
file, then it is less damaging than I thought. 

Thanks. 

Joost.