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| author | Kenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-02-24 12:18:44 +0000 |
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| committer | Kenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-02-24 12:18:44 +0000 |
| commit | 5718a093cdba3d955f43e1fee9606291ba833459 (patch) | |
| tree | 96c9ded8f13275089cd1c2f214f090ebbc8d3ba1 /sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5 | |
| parent | 4ab64cb44f119936663da2441694ab061b9b37df (diff) | |
Remove some anachronisms and use consistant form and markup for
"/var/db/dhclient.leases.<IFNAME>".
Tweak and ok jmc@
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5 | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5 b/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5 index bbf9578b586..ed575673e9b 100644 --- a/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5 +++ b/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.leases.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: dhclient.leases.5,v 1.7 2012/09/22 20:09:43 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: dhclient.leases.5,v 1.8 2013/02/24 12:18:43 krw Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997 The Internet Software Consortium. .\" All rights reserved. @@ -36,37 +36,39 @@ .\" see ``http://www.isc.org/isc''. To learn more about Vixie .\" Enterprises, see ``http://www.vix.com''. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 22 2012 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 24 2013 $ .Dt DHCLIENT.LEASES 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm dhclient.leases .Nd DHCP client lease database .Sh DESCRIPTION -The Internet Software Consortium DHCP client keeps a persistent -database of leases that it has acquired that are still valid. +.Xr dhclient 8 +keeps a persistent database of leases that it has acquired that are still +valid. The database is a free-form ASCII file containing one valid declaration per lease. -If more than one declaration appears for a given lease, -the last one in the file is used. -The file is written as a log, so this is not an unusual occurrence. +The file is written as a log, so the last declaration is the most recent +lease obtained. .Pp The lease file is named -.Qq dhclient.leases.IFNAME , +.Pa /var/db/dhclient.leases. Ns Aq Ar IFNAME , where .Qq IFNAME -represents the network interface the DHCP client acquired the lease on. +represents the network interface +.Xr dhclient 8 +acquired the lease on. For example, if .Xr dhclient 8 is configured for the em0 network device, the lease file will be named -.Qq dhclient.leases.em0 . +.Pa /var/db/dhclient.leases.em0 , .Pp The format of the lease declarations is described in .Xr dhclient.conf 5 . .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/var/db/dhclient.leases.IFNAME " -.It /var/db/dhclient.leases.IFNAME +.It Pa /var/db/dhclient.leases. Ns Aq Ar IFNAME , Current lease file. .El .Sh SEE ALSO |