NetworkManager

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Oct 7 14:58:45 UTC 2008


Erik Christiansen wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:31:25AM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>> 
>> I do know where it's saved (at least the search domains) - it is saved
>> in /etc/resolv.conf. Try it.
>> 
>> > > BUT: The new search list *did* get written into /etc/resolv.conf!
>> > 
> 
> Amen, hallelujah. Had that happen here, when I installed 7.10. It took
> quite a few minutes to find that /etc/resolv.conf had crap in it, and a
> manual edit was overwritten on each reboot.
> 
> Finding that networkmanager was the source of the corruption, the best
> fix _for me_ was: sudo apt-get remove --purge network-manager

LOL.  You didn't get a thing out of this thread, did you?  Network Manager
NEVER writes to /etc/resolv.conf.
-- 
derek





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