Changing dhclient hardcoded options (Debian)

Alex Bligh alex at alex.org.uk
Mon Aug 24 23:02:56 UTC 2015


On 24 Aug 2015, at 22:11, Nicolas C. <dhcp at nryc.fr> wrote:

> It seems that the package "ifupdown" on Debian provides hardcoded options for dhclient :
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14720571/which-program-invokes-dhclient-on-debian-squeeze
> 
> I'd like to run dhclient with the "-i" option, is there an easy way (no recompiling / packaging) to do this?

Something like this (untested)

mv /sbin/dhclient /sbin/dhclient.orig

cat > /sbin/dhclient
#!/bin/bash
exec /sbin/dhclient.orig -i "$@"
^D

chmod 755 /sbin/dhclient

-- 
Alex Bligh






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