Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface

[Xin LI]

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On 11/18/11 12:45, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Xin, good day.
> 
> Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38:31PM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
>> Is there any counter reasoning about "having an interface marked
>> as non-DHCP is not an error"?  I'm still not convinced with the
>> benefit of having it show an error message.
> 
> Well, when I invoke 'service dhclient start em0' and em0 isn't 
> DHCP-enabled, I want to see some diagnostics on why I was not able
> to get DHCP on that interface.  Return code isn't that visible (I
> can, of course, always run it as 'service dhclient start em0 ||
> echo failed'), but I am not up to typing more than needed and I
> should see the real reason for absence of DHCP-assigned address in
> that case, be it the non-DHCP-enabled interface or some other
> problem.

Thinking again I believe that your approach is more sensible.  Thanks!

Cheers,
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