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Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?



On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 07:43, Thomas Hood wrote:
> > Ppp does write to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf.  This could be fixed by creating
> > /var/lib/ppp/resolv.conf and making /etc/ppp/resolv.conf a symlink to it.
>
> Can ppp ever run before /var is mounted?  If not then your
> solution is OK.

I really doubt that someone will NFS mount /var over a ppp link.  Even an ADSL 
link running pppoa or pppoe won't do.

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