----- Original Message -----
From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf
> On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> > Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is
misbehaving.
> >
> > I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am
not
> > sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it
> > lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I
wrote
> > the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in fine,
but
> > can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check
> > resolv.conf and it is entirely empty!
> >
> > Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express much
> > longer. ;-) Thank you,
> >
> As root, open a console window, call up your favorite console-mode
> editor and retype your resolv.conf, making sure it's named in all
> lowercase letters (i.e. "resolv.conf" instead of "Resolv.conf")
>
> Here's the permissions on my resolv.conf which works perfectly:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root
>
> As you can see it's owned by user "root" and group "root." Also, ONLY
> root can write to it, but any user can READ it.
> John
>
Here is the permission on my resolv.conf which does not work:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 2 11:07 resolv.conf
I also checked the permission of the kppp link for "user", and all he can do
is read and execute, but not write. Even so, kppp keeps deleting the
content of resolv.conf as "user". I also notice that, while the connection
is open, the text inside resolv.conf is "search localdomain". Summing up:
As user, the contents of resolv.conf are:
nameserver xxxxx
nameserver yyyyy
before using kppp
search localdomain
during kppp usage (neither kmail nor netscape can find the server)
empty
after kppp usage
Any help would be appreciated,
/Gustavo.
