[CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

Dave tdbtdb+centos at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 00:18:13 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale
<JCasale at activenetwerx.com> wrote:
>>Just one of those things you kind of pick up as you go along and
>>remember.  Tribal knowledge if you will.
>
> There's two pdf's and one command I use "often" :)
>
> The redhat 5.3 deployment and installation pdf's (or the online versions)

That looks useful to know.

> and:
>
> # find /usr/share/doc/ -exec grep "PEERDNS" '{}' \; -print
>    PEERDNS=yes|no
>      file if PEERDNS is not set to "no".
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.25/sysconfig.txt
>    honor PEERDNS=no for pump and dhcpcd too (#18619)
>    DEFROUTE defaults on; PEERDNS documented and defaults on
> /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.25/ChangeLog
>
> Now you know what doc to read...

Yeah, but by the time I knew PEERDNS was involved, all the hard work
was done. Try that find command with 'resolv.conf' instead of PEERDNS
and you get way too many hits.

mahalo,
Dave



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