dhcpd, Mac OS X and launchd

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

-- Tina Siegenthaler <tina at zool.uzh.ch> is rumored to have mumbled on 29. 
April 2009 13:01:11 +0200 regarding dhcpd, Mac OS X and launchd:

> The man page for launchd.plist states that "a daemon launched by launchd
> must not fork(2) and have the parent process exit (3) or _exit(2)." I'm
> absolutely no programmer, but I had a quick glance at the code in
> dhcpd.c, and it seems to me that this is what dhcpd does? Or am I
> completely wrong here? If this is the case, how do you start your dhcpd
> at startup on Mac OS X?

If you specify the "-f" flag, you should be able to make it work with 
launchd. I guess there's a DHCP launchd file for OS X Server, so if you 
have access to that you can take it look how it's done there.
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