[Touch-packages] [Bug 1394081] Re: Add manual options for administrators

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Hood
The proper way for the admin to stop /etc/resolv.conf from being updated by resolvconf is for him or her to remove the symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. The resolvconf program only ever writes to the target of that symlink. Thus, in the absence of that link, resolvcon

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1394081] Re: Add manual options for administrators

2014-11-20 Thread HeinMueck
Thomas, what you describe as the proper way will not work at all - take a look at /etc/network/if-up.d/000resolvconf. It only checks if /sbin/resolvconf exists and if it is executable. As it does not check for resolv.conf being a symlink it will never stop if it is not. If it is supposed to be lik

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1394081] Re: Add manual options for administrators

2014-11-21 Thread Thomas Hood
I wrote: > The proper way for the admin to stop /etc/resolv.conf from > being updated by resolvconf is for him or her to remove the > symbolic link /etc/resolv.conf -> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. HeinMueck wrote: > what you describe as the proper way will not work at all >- take a look at /etc/

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1394081] Re: Add manual options for administrators

2014-11-21 Thread HeinMueck
Uuh, Thomas - did not know I am stepping on your toe here. Pardon! So, your hints where quite helpful as I did not notice the file being updated was the one in /run/resolvconf. My situation is this: - 4 Racks of boxes with 1 to 3 networks each - network 1 is static, the other 2 dhcp - resolver c

[Touch-packages] [Bug 1394081] Re: Add manual options for administrators

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Hood
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1385010 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1385010 > did not know I am stepping on your toe here No toes being stepped on here. > had to take care of this, so I generate the resolv.conf from a package - no link anymore OK. Leave the resolvconf package ins