[olug] Problems Setting up DHCP for Cox Migration

[Phil Brutsche]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> After poking around, reading the man page for dhcpcd, etc. I see that
> dhcpcd is installed in /sbin but it is not starting at boot ("ps aux |
> grep dhcpcd" confirms this).  Is there a script or config file I need to
> edit somewhere that I've missed?

Yes.

Hint: the files under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

> For what its worth, there does not appear to be any script specifically
> intended to start dhcpcd in the /etc/init.d directory like I would have
> expected (might explain why I set things to static before).

Nope, there won't be and shouldn't be.  Such a thing has caused problems
on Debian systems in the past.

-- 

Phil


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