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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:00:59 -0800
From:      Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How about a Start-Up Script that execute every 30 minutes for resolv.conf???
Message-ID:  <45AC863B.3090508@chapman.edu>
In-Reply-To: <6f4f57f60701152357v59daf746xb62f66c8bf31ac51@mail.gmail.com>
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George Vanev wrote:
> If you really want to copy resolv.conf from /root to /etc every 30 min
> you don't need a startup script. Just add the following line in
> /etc/crontab:
> */30     *       *       *       *       root    cp /root/resolv.conf
> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> I don't know what exactly are you trying to do, but this is not
> quite a good decision.
>
>
Agreed-- it's a bad idea.  However, if you still want to do it, throw a 
-f flag after the cp just to make sure it forcibly overwrites the 
resolv.conf.

-- 
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / chandler@chapman.edu
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