RE: why does resolv.conf change?

-----Original Message-----
From: Sjoerd Hardeman [mailto:sjoerd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, 20 March, 2010 03:47
To: debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: why does resolv.conf change?

Clive McBarton schreef:
To make my original question more precise: I want the stuff
I write into
resolv.conf to persist, but it does not have to be in that file. I'm
happy to write things elsewhere as long as *some place*
makes my changes
persistent.


Yet, relying on the immutability of /etc/resolv/conf is like
relying on
the persistence of files on /tmp: just DON'T!


2nd note that my suggestion to make /etc/resolv.conf immutable was not to keep his changes, but to cause the application making the changes to complain in the event log. Then the OP could fix or configure the offending application.

The OP said that he did not know which application that was -- causing a failure is a simple way to identify these things. ("FOO unable to write to /etc/resolv.conf" in syslog is a good clue as to the culprit.)

Cheers,

James

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