Libguestfs - Oct 2014 - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] appliance: Use dhclient instead of hard-coding IP address of appliance.

On Thu, Oct 02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> +if grep -sq guestfs_network=1 /proc/cmdline; then
> +    dhclient
> +fi
dhclient will be missing at least in openSUSE. Not an issue now, does
the script fail if the command fails to execute due to ENOENT?

Olaf

On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 01:43:46PM +0200, Olaf Hering
wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> > +if grep -sq guestfs_network=1 /proc/cmdline; then
> > +    dhclient
> > +fi
> 
> dhclient will be missing at least in openSUSE. Not an issue now, does
> the script fail if the command fails to execute due to ENOENT?
The script won't fail, but the network won't work.  What's the
alternative on SuSE?

Rich.

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On Thu, Oct 02, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> The script won't fail, but the network won't work.  What's the
> alternative on SuSE?
I think that would be dhcpcd, which is also used by NetworkManager.

Olaf