-.\" $Id: dhclient.8,v 1.29 2008/06/12 13:38:41 fdupont Exp $
+.\" $Id: dhclient.8,v 1.30 2008/11/20 14:55:14 jreed Exp $
.\"
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flag explicitly releases the current lease, and once the lease has been
released, the client exits.
.PP
+The
+.B -x
+flag tells any currently running client to exit gracefully without
+releasing leases first.
+.PP
If the client is killed by a signal (for example at shutdown or reboot)
it won't execute the
.B dhclient-script (8)