I was getting strange errors saying: execve (/sbin/dhclient-script, ...): No such file or directory eventually I tracked the problem down to find that it is cased because the dhclient-script uses bash in ints shebang #!/bin/bash This is disappointing because I am using dhclient on a minimal system that does not have bash installed, nor need bash for any other purpose. It would be good if the dhclient-script used shell as a lowest common denominator. thanks Andrew