why omshell when no dhcpd ?

[Andrew Sparrow]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:23:33AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> It can be used to query a running dhclient for lease information (and
> I've wanted to do so a few times only to find that omshell apparently
> isn't built on !current...).

<AOL>
What he said.
</AOL>

Admittedly you can do most everything without it less elegantly by
grovelling around in the lease file and/or killing/re-starting
dhclient - but having to build the port (on !current) to get omshell
is kind of sub-optimal, especially as omshell is the suggested
method of pausing dhclient prior to suspending a mobile client and
resuming on a different network.

So, killing dhclient works - but it'd be preferable to use
rc.suspend/rc.resume to pause/restart dhclient automatically when
using a mobile profile.

IIRC (been a while), the lack of omshell is reminiscent of building
OpenSSL from ports to get some of the standard CA management scripts,
even though SSL is in the base system.

Cheers,

AS