-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:23:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:39:02PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:05:53PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > [Please CC me on replies] > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On my freshly installed Debian jessie system, running XFCE and > > > Network Manager, I'm seeing /etc/resolv.conf being blanked every so > > > often (it seems to be about every 20 minutes). I can't see what is doing > > > this; there's nothing in the system logs which correlates with this event. > > > > See my other post: the brutal (but effective) self-defense tool I used > > (back then, when NM was yet allowed on my boxes ;-) was to "chattr +i" > > the file. With some luck I'd find complaints in the log files which helped > > clear up which program (and in which context) was trying to do something > > to the files. > > > > The nice part of chattr is that it protects the direntry too (so the > > obvious fall-back of removing and re-creating doesn't help). > > But I *want* NM to update the file, and I don't have any evidence that > it's NM blanking it here. So preventing updates isn't what I want. > > Having said that, you're right that looking for complaints could be > an effective debugging tool. I'll give that a go.
Yes, that was my primary aim too :-) Some day those i-do-everything-and-i-know-better-than-you programs will learn about chattr. Then we're hosed; so please you do it very quietly and don't tell anybody ;-D > I did just notice that there is a third state that the file sometimes > ends up in, as well as the expected one which begins "Generated by > Network Manager". This is a file which just contains one nameserver > entry containing the IPv6 resolver. Odd. Indeed. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlYaP8QACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbrGACeP0iySkaeEXhIuqiycM5kheVP PHYAnj/fK1zD43PuYWSN8leV8jEUWa1t =b0Yg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
