Re: Ctrl-c abort of dhclient during rc.d start aborts all network configuration

From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 08/31/05

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    Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:56:14 -0700
To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>

    On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
    > On Aug 31, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
    > >>(2) If a dhclient is ctrl-c'd, it would be nice if the rest of the
    > >>network
    > >> configuration continued.
    > >
    > >I don't see any code in the startup scripts that would cause them to
    > >exit on failure so the issue is probalby that the signal is being
    > >delivered to the /etc/rc.d/netif instance. I don't really know
    > >what the
    > >solution to that is.
    >
    > Add:
    >
    > trap "" 2 3
    >
    > ...to the beginning of /etc/rc.d/netif, and a "trap 2 3" at the end,
    > so the shell ignores SIGQUIT (aka Control-C)?

    Thanks, that reminded me where to looks. I think I'll probably
    /etc/rc.d/fsck's example and add:

            trap : 3

    -- Brooks
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