dhclient filling up my logfiles

[Hasse]

On Saturday 21 June 2003 01.53, Hasse wrote:
Oh yes !
Your instructions to redirect the dhclient messages to
another logfile did indeed work. ( I did a mistake )
Thx a lot.
  Regards Hasse
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> On Friday 20 June 2003 21.55, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Hasse <webmaster at swedehost.com> writes:
> > > On Thursday 19 June 2003 17.47, Hasse wrote:
> > > > Hi everybody.
> > > > Running FreeBSD 4.8-Stable.
> > > > I'm connected to the internet by ADSL and dynamic IP.
> > > > Dhcp-client keeps filling up my /var/log/messages.
> > > > Makes a log-entry every 10th minute.
> > > >
> > > > <snip>
> > > > Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0
> > > > Jun 19 17:35:56 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255
> > > > Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Network Number: 217.209.211.0
> > > > Jun 19 17:44:48 odin dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 217.209.211.255
> > > > </snip>
> > > >
> > > > I'm running it with a practically empty dhclient.conf file.
> > > > Only added one line to preserve my resolv.conf file.
> > > > prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
> > > >
> > > > According to the man-page dhclient(8), it's possible to
> > > > add a "-q" switch to only log errors.
> >
> > No, that's not what the man page says the option does.  That option
> > keeps anything but errors being sent to standard error; it has no
> > relationship to the system log.
> >
> > > > <snip>
> > > >  The client normally prints a startup message and displays the
> > > > protocol sequence  to  the  standard  error  descriptor until it has
> > > > acquired an address, and then only logs messages using  the  syslog
> > > > (3)  facility. The  -q flag prevents any messages other than errors
> > > > from being printed to the standard error descriptor.
> > > > </snip>
> >
> > Read that again to see what I mean.
>
> Ahh.. sorry :-)
>
> > > > Check the lease file you're receiving, if it has a rediculously short
> > > > lease time complain to your provider.
> >
> > This was obviously the situation.
>
> I'll stay put for a week or so, just to see if it goes back to normal due
> to some upgrades or any other fishy stuff at my ISP.
> It's not really a problem, just annoying.
>
> > > This excessive logging behavior started for about 4 days ago.
> > > At least, thats when I got aware of it.
> > > Everything is working just fine, except for this.
> > > My IP-address hardly ever change. I've had the same one for nearly a
> > > year now. There got to be a way to tell it to only log errors, not
> > > every connection, but I don't know how.
> > > I was looking for a way in the syslog.conf, but I have very little
> > > understanding for that tool. ( not a clue ).
> > > Any more hints or clues would be preciated.
> >
> > Pick the dhclient messages up in a different log file.
> >
> > Something like (untested):
> > !dhclient
> > *.*     /var/log/dhcpd
>
> That did not work for me, if I did the right things.
> Edited syslog.conf and added the above.
> touch /var/log/dhcpd
> added the following to newsyslog.conf
> /var/log/dhcpd                          644  3     100  @T00  Z
> rebooted
>
> > > This is a snip from my lease file :
> > > lease {
> > >   interface "xl0";
> > >   fixed-address 217.209.211.129;
> > >   option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> > >   option time-offset 3600;
> > >   option routers 217.209.211.1;
> > >   option dhcp-lease-time 1200;
> >
> > Yep, your lease time is 10 minutes long.
> >
> > >   option dhcp-message-type 5;
> > >   option domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1,10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2;
> > >   option dhcp-server-identifier 10.0.113.1;
> > >   option broadcast-address 217.209.211.255;
> > >   renew 5 2003/6/20 12:18:03;
> > >   rebind 5 2003/6/20 12:26:08;
> > >   expire 5 2003/6/20 12:28:38;
> > > }
> >
> > Try setting your dhclient.conf to ask for a longer lease.  If that
> > fails, pull the dhclient messages into another file...
>
> Will do.
> Thx everybody.
>
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Regards
   Hasse
      Webmaster @ Swedehost.com