Periodically I need to release and renew the IP address on my PC manually. How do you do that on Slackware 10.1?

$su
#dhcpcd

it might say that you need to remove a file, cause the ip could still be viable.. if so remove it..

#rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid

then run dhcpcd

#dhcpcd

you can also specify which adapter. say you have a laptop and the ethernet card is eth0 and the wireless eth1 you can just run..

#dhcpcd eth0 -for the network card...

or

#dhcpcd eth1 -for the wireless card.

I'm not sure if this is Debian/Ubuntu specific, but I find this command works for me.

ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0

Hopefully one of our responses help

if you want you could make a script that removes the file then runs dhcpcd that way you dont have to type the rm /etc/.... and all that. just name the script something like dhcp_renew.. so

#pico /root/dhcp_renew

rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.pid
rm /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth1.pid
dhcpcd

then make it executable

#chmod 755 /root/dhcp_renew

you could also add something like

xterm -hold -e ifconfig

to the end of the script and it will display the ip after if finds one... but you mgiht have to set a sleep state like

sleep 10
xterm -h and all that stuff.

well you could brind the interfaces down and back up,, but you shouldnt need to. the actual commands are

#ifconfig eth0 down - of course eth0 or eth1 or wahtever
#ifconfig eth0 up - " " " " " " " "

but should be able to do it with dhcpcd that is what it is for.

Hmmm, weird, ifup and ifdown work for me....

right probably distro specific or a third party tool. not in the install of slack.

how about on a suse 9.3 ? whats the counterpart for this ?

suse uses yast... just use yast... dont try to do it by hand, or you will make it mad.. i tried that before.