Re: Resolvconf -- a package to manage /etc/resolv.conf

[Goswin Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 01:00, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > You should think of a mechanism for daemons to get notified about
> > changes in resolv.conf.
> 
> There is already such a mechanism.  See below.
> 
> > Like providing a function to register a script
> > and a list of arguments (like the PID of the program to
> > notify). Whenever the resolv.conf changes all currently registered
> > scripts would be called with their respective arguments.
> > 
> > The simplest form would be:
> > 
> > resolv.conf-register /etc/init.d/squid reload
> > 
> > That would make squid to reload its config each time a nameserver is
> > added or removed.
> 
> Currently, scripts in /etc/resolvconf/update.d/ get run when
> resolver information changes.  So, would it suffice to create
> /etc/resolvconf/update.d/squid containing the following?
>     #!/bin/sh
>     /etc/init.d/squid reload
> 
> --
> Thomas Hood

Great.

MfG
        Goswin