Error in part of dhcpd.conf man page on booting flag?

[Bart Van den Broeck]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:58:23 +0200 (CEST), Glen Satchell wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:08:28 +0200 (CEST), Bart Van den Broeck wrote:
> >According to the man page for dhcpd.conf:
> >       The  booting  flag  is  used to tell dhcpd whether or not to respond to
> >       queries from a particular client.  This keyword only has  meaning  when
> >       it appears in a host declaration.
> >
> >Despite that, there are many messages on the list explaining how to deny RAS
> >clients a lease by putting "deny booting" into a class declaration (e.g.
> >http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-server&m=111563063424917&w=2  ,
> >http://marc.info/?l=dhcp-server&m=109707939405989&w=2 ).  And it even seems
> >to work as expected.  Is this a "man page bug"?
> >
> >Kind regards
> >Bart Van den Broeck
> 
> If it is please feel free to rewrite that section. I think the key
> words would be that it applies to any host in the scope where it is
> defined. So it may indeed work in a host, group, subnet, class or
> global scope.
> 
> regards,
> -glenn


Well, since the text at the top of the section already says:
"
ALLOW DENY AND IGNORE IN SCOPE
       The following usages of allow and deny will work in any scope, although
       it is not recommended that they be used in pool declarations.
"
I guess it's enough to replace
"
       The  booting  flag  is  used to tell dhcpd whether or not to respond to
       queries from a particular client.  This keyword only has  meaning  when
       it appears in a host declaration.   By default, booting is allowed, but
       if it is disabled for a particular client, then that client will not be
       able to get an address from the DHCP server.
"
with
"
       The  booting  flag  is  used to tell dhcpd whether or not to respond to
       queries from a client.   By default, booting is allowed, but if  it  is
       disabled in a certain scope, then clients in that  scope  will  not  be
       able to get an address from the DHCP server.
"


Kind regards
Bart Van den Broeck
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