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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi, All:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I woke today to find that for the second time my /var/log filesytem
was full due to the size of the messages log. This time and last time,
the log was over 95% due to dhcp logging, and I don’t understand
why. I have commented out the log-dhcp line in /opt/etc/dnsmasq.conf
(where my configuration lives), and have moved the messages file and restarted
(rebooted) the server. Each time, the logging of dhcp requests begins flooding
anew.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>These requests seem to come from a pair of interfaces on a
Winblows 7 machine, if that makes any difference, and apparently were the
result of this configuration line:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-host=00:1d:09:59:7b:7c,00:21:5c:6a:03:ef,192.168.0.10,m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>… because I had interpreted the manual
differently. Clarity has arrived – I have disabled the wireless on
the laptop – and logging is much less, but I still wonder why this
logging continues. What must I do to make it stop?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here’s the tail of that log:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>lovestora-1 /home/delovelady> tail -20 /home/messages<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:20 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:20 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:21 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]: DHCPDISCOVER(eth0)
192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:21 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPOFFER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:21 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:21 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:22 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPDISCOVER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:22 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPOFFER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:22 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:22 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:23 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPDISCOVER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:23 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPOFFER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:23 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:23 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:24 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPDISCOVER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:24 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPOFFER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:24 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPREQUEST(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:24 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPACK(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>May 24 05:08:25 lovestora-1 dnsmasq-dhcp[2037]:
DHCPDISCOVER(eth0) 192.168.0.10 00:1d:09:59:7b:7c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>lovestora-1 /home/delovelady><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Here are all the uncommented lines from dnsmasq.conf:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>lovestora-1 /home/delovelady> grep -v '^#'
/opt/etc/dnsmasq.conf | grep -v '^$'<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>domain-needed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>bogus-priv<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>expand-hosts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>domain=lovelady.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-range=192.168.0.10,192.168.0.109,7d<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-host=88:87:17:12:69:4d,canon-8120,192.168.0.5,infinite<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-host=00:23:8b:8a:ad:70,aspire,192.168.0.12,infinite<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-host=00:26:F2:DB:95:0C,lovestora-0,192.168.0.250,infinite<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-host=00:1d:09:59:7b:7c,00:21:5c:6a:03:ef,192.168.0.10,m1330c<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-option=3,192.168.0.1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>dhcp-option=option:router,192.168.0.1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>lovestora-1 /home/delovelady><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif"'>Dennis
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</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:red'>"A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could
not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in
poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even."<br>
— Robert Graves </span><span style='font-size:
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