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Re: /etc/resolv.conf has wrong permissions



> However, /etc/resolv.conf is installed with or modified to root/root -rw------- permissions.  This
> sounds logical until a normal user tries to dial out.  It was weird, my normal account would dial and 
> login ok, but all of the net calls would show a "Host name lookup failure".  I could even su to root
> and things would work fine.

Interesting.  On my 1.1 upgraded to 1.2 and then to 1.3 system the file is

-rw-r--r--	and owned by root.root



George Bonser
grep@oriole.sbay.org, grep@concentric.net


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