dhcpd, Mac OS X and launchd

[Tina Siegenthaler]

Am 29.04.2009 um 13:06 schrieb 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.

Thanks a lot, that did the trick!

Tina