Red Hat

Hi

Can anyone please tell me how to disable dhclient on redhat host.

I have set static IP to one of my redhat host but I don't know how it changes to some other IP after few hours.

here is the output from ifcfg-eth0 and rc.local

Code:

test-123 root # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=X.X.X.X
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=X.X.X.X

test-123 root # cat /etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
test-123 #

Thanks for help.
Tannu

---------- Post updated at 06:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:43 PM ----------

Added/var/log/messages

May 24 16:05:37 server dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
May 24 16:05:50 server dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
May 24 16:05:53 server dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
May 24 16:05:53 server dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

Try changing BOOTPROTO to:

Code:

BOOTPROTO=none

If that does not work revert to using BOOTPROTO=static and check if your version of RedHat comes with NetworkManager. If this is the case turn NetworkManager off and disable using service/chkcfg.

Thanks for your reply.

I figured out that the dhclient process was running so I killed the process kill -9 <pid> and after that the IP has not changed.

Thanks
Tannu