On 28 Aug 2008, Marc Perkel told this: > Here's something I threw together to make sure the /etc/resolv.conf > points to a working nameserver. I run this once a minute.
How do you arrange that all the existing programs that have already sucked in resolv.conf note the change? They're generally not going to unless you restart them: nothing polls resolv.conf looking for changes to it as far as I know, that would be far too inefficient. > It checks to > see what name servers are up and creates /etc/resolv.conf. As you all > know SA and mail servers need the first nameserver to always be > working. But these are both root-owned daemons and you're not restarting any of them.
