resolv.conf file keeps getting rewritten

Thomas Hood jdthood at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jan 26 02:10:49 CST 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 23:56 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> I didn't think it could work this way, but it takes advantage of a
> questionable design feature of dhclient (the hooks are sourced, rather than
> executed in a subprocess) to change the behaviour of the default script by
> redefining a shell function.  This can surely be done in a more robust way.


That certainly is one of the uglier hooks.


> Your personal preferences aside, gnome-system-tools is the standard means to
> configure network interfaces in the Ubuntu desktop, and it would be an
> essential part of any integration or testing of resolvconf in Ubuntu.


Well, this answers the question about whether I should make attempts to
get resolvconf support into g-s-t.  :)
-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood at yahoo.co.uk>




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