On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org wrote:
On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 01:32:39PM -1000, Dave wrote:
Wow, there it is. I guess I could've found it by doing a careful search of the initscripts package, which contains/owns /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, which was the only script in /etc/ that invokes /sbin/dhclient, which a comment in /etc/resolv.conf revealed to be the program that wrote it.
Just one of those things you kind of pick up as you go along and remember. Tribal knowledge if you will.
Where exactly did you attempt to look first?
man 5 resolv.conf Not saying it was smart. second try was rpm -qf /etc/resolv.conf on the theory that some package ought to own every config file and have some sort of documentation about the files it owns. Not much of a theory.
I'm just trying to think of where a more obvious place to look would be first. Perhaps a man page documenting all the ifcfg type settings? man ifcfg?
That would have taken me just as long as this process did, since I had no connection in my brain initially between resolv.conf and ifcfg. I think if there was an obvious good candidate, we would not be talking about this, I'd have found my answer right away on my own.
I think Meenoo Shivdasani probably had the best idea, to google the message I found in my modified /etc/resolv.conf.
best, Dave