i have a problem like this:
i have a slackware 10.1 box connetcted to local network with dhcpd on the router to give addresses to machines. my box is now "placed" in router arp table /etc/ethers twice (one for masquerade and one for public IP). the problem is router`s dhcp is not set to give me public IP from dhcp and it cannot be set not to give local IP to my box.
so, i did something like this: edited my /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf not to use dhcp (USE_DHCP[0]="no") with my public IP and default gateway in config.
but sometimes weird thing is happening. in the system logs i have something like this:
and my box changes it`s ip to the one taken from dhcp on the router even if it`s configured not to use it.
this happened twice at almost the same time of day or actually night (two seconds of difference) and then today. i already checked cron, nothing happens at this time on my box nor the router.

can anyone tell me what should i do? (but not things like #killall dhcpcd because this locks networking on this box and i must hard-reset)
this is vital to do it without breaking the connection because it has no keyboard or monitor :/

thanks in advance
MJ aka Jabol

try

#rm /var/run/dhcpcd-eth1.pid

substitute your device name for eth1 in the above line.

That is the Gentoo location of the file so you might have to search for the file location on your distro if it is different.

I think that is why you are getting the "dhcpConfig: ioctl SIOCADDRT: File exists" error from.

Why not set up static ip connections??