[plug] annoying dhcp messages?

[Russ Pitman]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:26:42PM +0800, John Breen wrote:
> ok, dhcp seems to be working relatively smoothly now, with one or two
> niggling annoyances.
> 
> the main one is that the dhcp daemon seems to fire these messages at my
> syslogs all the time.  since logcheck emails them to me every hour, my
> email is getting annoyingly large.
> 
> any ideas what i can do to stop them?  i have told dhcp on startup to
> only listen on port eth0 (another message further down), but can't see
> why this should be happening - surely it cannot be that my dhcp requests
> are being sent over the internet?
> 
> Security Violations
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Mar  4 18:04:51 borg dhcpd-2.2.x: fallback_discard: Connection refused
> Mar  4 18:09:51 borg dhcpd-2.2.x: fallback_discard: Connection refused
> Mar  4 18:14:51 borg dhcpd-2.2.x: fallback_discard: Connection refused
> 
> thanks in advance
> 
> john breen
> 
You could try putting   > /dev/null 2>&1  on the end of the startup command,

Works for me on annoying chron jobs.
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		    ----russ----