Re: Quiet option for ifup/ifdown (dhcp)

[James Robertson <j@mesrobertson.com>]

On 29 January 2011 12:38, David Parker <dparker@utica.edu> wrote:

> dhclient has a quiet option but because ifup/ifdown calls it I haven't
> been able overide this.

ifup must get called from a script, so you could probably just edit the script and suppress the output from ifup.

    - Dave

Thanks for the pointer.

Found what I needed in /etc/init.d/networking.

And sent the relevant ifup and ifdown lines to "> /dev/null 2>&1"