Weird: unrecognized option --dhcpif=ath2 ?

[Jimmy Brake]

Hi,

What often helps me is to watch what the program is doing via strace. 
You might also try some other chilli options such as fg to see if its 
working at all.

Jimmy

Derek C wrote:
> Hi Jimmy,
>
> There is only one chilli executable (/usr/sbin/chilli) but would any other
> files (other executables like chilli_query, etc) or any librarys (like
> libchilli.so.0.0.0) cause this issue?
>
> I'm just trying to work out what to look at and/or compare to other,
> working, boxes I have.
>
> Normally I'd just make a new openwrt setup and replace it but its on an
> antenna on the side of a 3 story building so getting it down would be very
> difficult.
>
> thanks,
>
> Derek
>
> On Tue, February 24, 2009 6:13 pm, Jimmy Brake wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> The only things that come to mind is that one you want to be sure that
>> the enviroment variables have not changed and two that the paths in your
>> enviroment point at the proper chilli binary. Those two things have caused
>> me problems in the past.
>>
>> Jimmy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Nick Sharp wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Jimmy,
>>>
>>>
>>> I totally agree with you but considering my CoovaAP installation was
>>> working last night untill I shut it down around 2am this morning, and
>>> after I fired it back up around 3pm this afternoon and its no longer
>>> working something is very wonky somewhere.
>>>
>>> Bearing in mind the only changes I had made to the "out of the box"
>>> install was to point it at my radius server, everything else was
>>> totally untouched.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Derek C [mailto:derekchilli at hssl.ie]
>>> Sent: 24 February 2009 16:22
>>> To: chilli at coova.org
>>> Cc: chilli at coova.org
>>> Subject: Re: Weird: unrecognized option --dhcpif=ath2 ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Jimmy,
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm running coova chilli in about 10 units - all working fine except
>>> this one that's gone funny.
>>>
>>> Its weird.  Other than the coova chilli the AP is still fully
>>> operational (openwrt, madwifi, etc)
>>>
>>>
>>> Derek
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, February 24, 2009 4:18 pm, Jimmy Brake wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I have been running Linux since 1998. Files don't change by
>>>> themselves unless they are designed to do that. Chilli is not designed
>>>> to change itself so you need to look on your system and find out what
>>>> has changed. Chilli is quite complex, lots of moving parts lots of
>>>> places for it to break. We keep everything in the config file and for
>>>> the last 4 years(?) chilli has never changed. We actually still use
>>>> pretty much the same files to run it as we did when we first setup.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick Sharp wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> Hmm, "chill corrupted some how" is all I've been saying for the
>>>>> past week
>>>>>
>>>>> My test system which was working yesterday and was untouched
>>>>> doesn't work any more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Im seriously beginning to doubt the reliability of this
>>>>> product.....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Derek C [mailto:derekchilli at hssl.ie]
>>>>> Sent: 24 February 2009 15:17
>>>>> To: chilli at coova.org
>>>>> Cc: chilli at coova.org
>>>>> Subject: RE: Weird: unrecognized option --dhcpif=ath2 ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Nick,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's even stranger than that:  If I run chilli on the command line
>>>>> with the argument it still happens: -
>>>>>
>>>>> root at OpenWrt:~# chilli --dhcpif=ath2
>>>>> chilli: unrecognized option `--dhcpif=ath2'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It's like chilli is corrupted somehow.... or, I wonder, could
>>>>> problems with other files cause this?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Derek
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Derek C
>>>>> In Ireland
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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