On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at 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