A weird question on DNS and booting Mandrake

[Edgar Allen]

>> 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.
>
Go ahead and do 'chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf' so that you can play
with linuxconf without it trashing your file.

Knowing linuxconf is a good thing so you need not mess around with the
individual files unless you want to.

You might even make a snapshot of your /etc directories before beginning
so that you can use ability of 'tar' to compare the files with the archive
to learn what all linuxconf changes.

>From /root:

    tar -cf etc.tar /etc

Then after some playing:

    cd /
    tar -df /root/etc.tar etc

And the files which changed should show up.