statmsg(8)

NAME
statmsg - System configuration status Message generator

SYNOPSIS
statmsg message

DESCRIPTION
Statmsg is an experimental and soon-to-be-deprecated mechanism for distributing system status change messages. It is currently used only by the DHCP client. Two message types are supported: network-location-changed and release-current-dhcp-leases . In order to use statmsg, sysconfd must be running.

The network-location-changed message instructs the DHCP client to recheck all leases it has acquired. This can be useful when a laptop has been put to sleep, moved, and then reawakened. The leased addresses are not relinquished unless the network location actually has changed, so it's safe to run this command at any time.

The release-current-dhcp-leases message instructs the DHCP client to send a DHCPRELEASE message to the DHCP server for each lease it currently holds, and to then unconfigure the IP address of each such lease. The client does not attempt to reacquire a lease - if that behaviour is desired, the network-location-changed message can be sent after the release-current-dhcp-leases message.

SEE ALSO
dhclient(8), sysconfd(8)

AUTHOR
statmsg(8) has been written for the Internet Software Consortium by Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> in cooperation with Vixie Enterprises. To learn more about the Internet Software Consortium, see http://www.vix.com/isc. To learn more about Vixie Enterprises, see http://www.vix.com.