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authorDavid Hankins <dhankins@isc.org>2005-03-17 20:15:29 +0000
committerDavid Hankins <dhankins@isc.org>2005-03-17 20:15:29 +0000
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MASSIVE merge from V3-RELEASE-BRANCH into HEAD. HEAD and V3-RELEASE are
now synced as of tag V3-0-3-BETA-1.
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index 36eafbf2..078dfe3c 100644
--- a/client/dhclient-script.8
+++ b/client/dhclient-script.8
@@ -1,41 +1,34 @@
.\" dhclient-script.8
.\"
-.\" Copyright (c) 1996-2001 Internet Software Consortium.
-.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-.\" are met:
+.\" Copyright (c) 2004 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+.\" Copyright (c) 1996-2003 by Internet Software Consortium
.\"
-.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
-.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
-.\" 3. Neither the name of The Internet Software Consortium nor the names
-.\" of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
-.\" from this software without specific prior written permission.
+.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
+.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
+.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
.\"
-.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM AND
-.\" CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
-.\" INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
-.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
-.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE INTERNET SOFTWARE CONSORTIUM OR
-.\" CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
-.\" SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-.\" LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF
-.\" USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND
-.\" ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
-.\" OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
-.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
-.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
+.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR
+.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
+.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
+.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
+.\" OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.\" This software has been written for the Internet Software Consortium
+.\" Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
+.\" 950 Charter Street
+.\" Redwood City, CA 94063
+.\" <info@isc.org>
+.\" http://www.isc.org/
+.\"
+.\" This software has been written for Internet Systems Consortium
.\" by Ted Lemon in cooperation with Vixie Enterprises and Nominum, Inc.
-.\" To learn more about the Internet Software Consortium, see
+.\" To learn more about Internet Systems Consortium, see
.\" ``http://www.isc.org/''. To learn more about Vixie Enterprises,
.\" see ``http://www.vix.com''. To learn more about Nominum, Inc., see
.\" ``http://www.nominum.com''.
.\"
-.\" $Id: dhclient-script.8,v 1.9 2002/05/27 03:50:20 murray Exp $
+.\" $Id: dhclient-script.8,v 1.10 2005/03/17 20:14:55 dhankins Exp $
.\"
.TH dhclient-script 8
.SH NAME
@@ -100,7 +93,8 @@ script can modify the valid of exit_status to change the exit status
of dhclient-script.
.SH OPERATION
When dhclient needs to invoke the client configuration script, it
-writes a shell script into /tmp which defines a variety of variables.
+defines a set of variables in the environment, and then invokes
+.B CLIENTBINDIR/dhclient-script.
In all cases, $reason is set to the name of the reason why the script
has been invoked. The following reasons are currently defined:
MEDIUM, PREINIT, BOUND, RENEW, REBIND, REBOOT, EXPIRE, FAIL and TIMEOUT.
@@ -143,7 +137,7 @@ When a binding has been completed, a lot of network parameters are
likely to need to be set up. A new /etc/resolv.conf needs to be
created, using the values of $new_domain_name and
$new_domain_name_servers (which may list more than one server,
-seperated by spaces). A default route should be set using
+separated by spaces). A default route should be set using
$new_routers, and static routes may need to be set up using
$new_static_routes.
.PP
@@ -199,8 +193,8 @@ $new_static_routes, but current scripts do not do this.
.SH FILES
Each operating system should generally have its own script file,
although the script files for similar operating systems may be similar
-or even identical. The script files included in the Internet
-Software Consortium DHCP distribution appear in the distribution tree
+or even identical. The script files included in Internet
+Systems Consortium DHCP distribution appear in the distribution tree
under client/scripts, and bear the names of the operating systems on
which they are intended to work.
.SH BUGS
@@ -217,11 +211,11 @@ dhclient(8), dhcpd(8), dhcrelay(8), dhclient.conf(5) and
dhclient.leases(5).
.SH AUTHOR
.B dhclient-script(8)
-has been written for the Internet Software Consortium
-by Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> in cooperation with Vixie
-Enterprises. To learn more about the Internet Software Consortium,
+has been written for Internet Systems Consortium
+by Ted Lemon in cooperation with Vixie
+Enterprises. To learn more about Internet Systems Consortium,
see
-.B http://www.vix.com/isc.
+.B http://www.isc.org.
To learn more about Vixie
Enterprises, see
.B http://www.vix.com.