Re: CentOS install (was: udhcpd question Debian squeeze)

This is quite possible the best kept secret of the Debian community. :-)

I posted not only on this board, but also on the Debian support forum
and didn't even get a reply there.
I am not a Debian user, but have been pretty happy with Ubuntu until
recently as newer releases have just felt "buggy".  I tried Debian as it
seemed a close relative.  I ran "apt-get install dhcpd" and was told
only that udhcpd would be installed as it was a replacement.  The
package that you mention was never mentioned, nor could I find it
mentioned on any searches of the inter-webs.

I have been away from RedHat for awhile, mostly because of issues I had
with "RPM dependency hell" in earlier releases that still give me
nightmares.  Hopefully yum will address these problems.  For now, the
CentOS 5.5 release looks like it will do what i need.

Thanks for the (belated) reply, hopefully it will help someone else
should they run into this issue.

- Mike Scott


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [LUNI] CentOS install (was: udhcpd question Debian
squeeze)
From: Martin Maney <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, March 20, 2011 6:54 pm
To: "Linux Users Of Northern Illinois (Chicago) - Technical Discussion"
<[email protected]>

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 02:16:37PM -0700, Mike Scott wrote:
> After bailing on Debian's weak dhcpd, I moved on to CentOS.

<cough> That was busybox's cheap imitation of a dhcp server. If you
aren't worried about using a couple MB of disk space, you could install
a real DHCP server: apt-get install isc-dhcp-server. I'm afraid I
wasn't paying close attention, and assumed you were stuck with
busybox's typically limited version of a real Unix program due to
system constraints; if you aren't then this is one of those "the
headache will go away if you stop beating your head on the wall" deals.

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