A weird question on DNS and booting Mandrake

[Kendric Beachey]

On Saturday, 14 April 2001 03:56, Edgar Allen wrote:
> >Every time I boot my Mandrake 7.2 machine, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf
> > so that it contains only one entry, 127.0.0.1, which frankly doesn't do
> > me a lot of good.  I have made myself a short script called fix.dns that
> > copies the correct version of resolv.conf in its place, and I've taken to
> > running that as root before doing anything net-related such as reading
> > mail.
> >
> >There's got to be a better way.  Who can tell me where to look to stop the
> >automatic overwriting of /etc/resolv.conf?
> >
> >This started one day after I'd been looking around in the various screens
> > of linuxconf.  I thought I wasn't actually changing anything, just
> > looking around, but maybe linuxconf thought differently.
>

[snip]

> and it will stop changing but to locate the source of the problem
> first try:
>
>     find /etc -name 'resolv.conf,v'
>
> because I suspect that they use CVS to keep track of the changes.

Ed, you the man!  :-)  That immediately turned up the culprit.  It didn't put 
up a fight when I removed it.

Now I'll just remove the line I added (at Tony's suggestion) to 
/etc/rc.d/rc.local (which did work fine, BTW) and I'll see the next time I 
reboot whether this weed has been pulled out.

Thanks for all the help, guys!

-- 
Kendric Beachey
ak at kc.rr.com

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