Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:13:24 +0200 From: Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch> To: Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient trashes my resolv.conf Message-ID: <20041028191324.GA18914@speedy.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <20041028174751.37d14505.lehmann@ans-netz.de> References: <20041027224512.2e3b2ae8.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027204852.GY95878@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20041027230039.7a5d0150.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027210303.GZ95878@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20041027233309.122e4207.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041027214224.GA60882@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041028002251.73eae308.lehmann@ans-netz.de> <20041028174751.37d14505.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 05:47:51PM +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > > I've tried supersede domain-name-servers ""; in /etc/dhclient.conf, But > > that seems to have no effect. I can't see any other way to prevent > > dhclient from touching my resolv.conf in that man page. Maybe you can > > point me? > > > > man 8 dhclient-script says > > > > HOOKS > > When it starts, the client script first defines a shell > > function, make_resolv_conf , which is later used to create the > > /etc/resolv.conf file. To override the default behaviour, > > redefine this function in the enter hook script. > > > > Martin, > > do you think, it is a good solution to overwrite the function definition > to prevent overwriting your resolv.conf? Wouldn't be a rc.conf parameter > easier for beginners to "get", and more stringent to the whole system of > configuration? > What do others think? I think not. If dhclient (or any other daemon started from within rc.d/) doesn't make it possible to prevent overwriting of resolv.conf by means of command line arguments, then rc.conf is not the place to fix that. You cannot have rc.conf knobs for every option of every daemon in the base system, that's what the daemons config files are for. cheers, t.
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