[Cialug] resolvconf - good, bad or ugly?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

What happens if you delete resolvconf or replace it with an empty file? 
Or uninstall the package?

On Monday November 24 2008 17:11, David Champion wrote:
>So... my latest server update (to Mandriva 2009) includes the change
> to using the "resolvconf" script for maintaining /etc/resolv.conf.
>
>I recall the good old days when RedHat used the "awesome" program
>linuxconf to maintain configuration files. And by "awesome", I mean it
>overwrites config files for you and breaks stuff. The resolvconf
> script is similarly awesome.
>
> From what I can tell, the "proper" way for me to specify DNS servers
> is to add them to my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 script
> as: DNS1=dns1.server.ip.addr
>DNS2=dns2.server.ip.addr
>
>BTW, the man page for resolvconf is one of those esoteric man pages
> that talks about all kinds of junk except the pragmatic information
> one might need to actually USE it.
>
>Am I doing this right? Am I just being too grumpy? Is it really that
>hard to edit /etc/resolv.conf?
>
>-dc
>
>
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