Handling resolv.conf on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 14 June 2014 03:43:58 Niki Kovacs did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Le 14/06/2014 08:45, Tom H a écrit :
> > 2) It's best to use 'service <service> restart' but in the case of
> > '/etc/init/networking.conf' it's best to use 'ifdown eth0 ; ifup
> > eth0' (IIRC 'service networking restart' and '[initctl] restart
> > networking' error out).
> 
> The problem with that is that if I invoke it in an SSH session on a
> root server, I'm kicked out.

And you should be as you are restarting the service that is the ssh path.

Is there some reason you cannot log in again?

> In a nutshell, how do I go about this on a root server ?

Use minicom to a serial port?  Will have to be hard-wired of course.
 
> Cheers,
> 
> Niki


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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