Dhcp client issue

[Philip A. Prindeville]

On 01/28/2010 01:50 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 01:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>> Ed Greshko wrote:
>>     
>>> Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> but when I try this, I get:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 4: expecting string or hexadecimal data.
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: #011send dhcp-client-identifier hardware;
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]:                                      ^
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 4: expecting a statement.
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: #011send dhcp-client-identifier hardware;
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]:                                              ^
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 5: semicolon expected.
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]:
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: ^
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf line 5: unterminated interface declaration.
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]:
>>>> Jan 28 09:03:35 builder dhclient[25694]: ^
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So it's not clear to me from the manual where you can have a dynamic
>>>> expression, and where you're required to have a literal.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> If I have time later in the day I'll see if I can be helpful.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I could not get back to sleep....
>>
>> Even though I didn't try the following as of yet, maybe you could?
>>
>> To make it easy to parse...maybe they are expecting a string to be
>> enclosed in quotes.  Have you tried....
>>
>> send dhcp-client-identifier "hardware" ;
>>     
> I don't think that's it.  I don't think dhclient permits indention
> using horizontal tabs.  The error messages start with "#011",
> and 011 octal is the horizontal tab character.
>
> To the OP: try indenting your script using spaces, not tabs and see if
> that works.
>   

Tried it without tabs or spaces.

Same issue.