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Re: r/o root filesystem?



On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:56:28AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.@.eu.org> writes:
> /etc/resolv.conf (dhcp)
> 
> These files should _never_ be modified by the system. They're configuration
> files for the admin to edit. dhcp should be set up to modify a file in /var so
> the admin can optionally make resolv.conf a symlink to it.

"should" I'm not going to get into... However, the DHCP clients usually
have a configuration file you can edit to tell it not to mess with the
resolv.conf settings.

Of course, if /var/ is not local, then the DHCP client can't very well
write to it before DHCP's run and /var's been mounted.

Actually, I do wonder what the behaviour in /etc/resolv.conf is if you've
got two DHCPing interfaces... And in the routing table, for that matter.

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