On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Stephen Satchell wrote:

> When configuring sendmail I discovered that "pump" (Red Hat's own version 
> of dhcpcd) has a habit of rebuilding /etc/resolv.conf when a lease 
> changes.  This means that my /etc/resolv.conf is blown away by pump and all 
> my resolver information for my inside network goes bye-bye.
> 

"man pump" -- you can inhibit this behavior by setting up /etc/pump.conf.

> I've asked for a switch in "pump" to permit the /etc/resolv.conf to be left 
> alone.  The damn thing runs at root, so I'm not sure that changing the 
> permissions to read-only will help (but I'll try it for grins).
> 
> Looking at dhcpcd, it has the same problem...

"man dhcpcd" -- look at the -R option.

-Tom

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