dhcpd update doesn't restart service

Jason Morgan jwm-freebsd-questions at sentinelchicken.net
Wed Jan 17 02:34:43 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:02:54AM -0500, Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>    I ran portupgrade on a 6.1 box. One of the ports needing updating was 
> isc-dhcpd it was v3.0.4 now at 3.0.5. I ran this update on two boxes, one 
> went fine, but on the other the service was not restarted. In my 
> pkgtools.conf file i do have the line needed to restart services after an 
> update. I was wondering how to set up a service so that if it died it would 
> be restarted? I know about inetd, but i didn't think dhcpd could run out of 
> it.
> Thanks.
> Dave.

There a script for it in /etc/rc.d/ ? If so, try:

# /etc/rc.d/<script> restart


Cheers,

Jason


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