From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Conway S. Smith" Subject: Re: Fixing /etc/resolv.conf Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:38:50 -0600 Message-ID: <42DF510A.7040803@comcast.net> References: <200507210552.j6L5qNoH000634@meridian.ph> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200507210552.j6L5qNoH000634@meridian.ph> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Peter H." Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter H. wrote: > Hi, > > In slackware the file /etc/resolv.conf is updated on every reboot. > > How can I stop that? I tried chattr +i and chmod -w w/o success. > > The reason is that the nameserver address which is put into the file on every > reboot is not the the one I am supposed to use according to the advise from my > broadband ISP. > > Thanks & regards Most likely /etc/resolv.conf is being overwritten by the DHCP client every time you reboot. In Slackware, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 so that when it runs dhcpcd it uses the option -R, which will prevent dhcpcd from replacing the existing /etc/resolv.conf. Good luck, Conway S. Smith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC31EIGL3AU+cCPDERAj7yAJ9kbxVaLo9PSJlMlg7ra5m3CQVZZACg7afv 2cFV+FhRQLMUHX+GTLI0+4c= =wx/F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs