Re: pump

[Daniel Wagner <e9925791@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

Michael Heldebrant <Heldebrant.Michael@mayo.edu> writes:

> Hmmm.  I have a pump.conf to not clobber my resolv.conf on address
> allocation.  Just checking if you did.  Perhaps this is a sleeping
> process waiting for you to let go of the address so it can restore your
> resolv.conf.  I'm not sure otherwise what would do that.  What does the
> syslog say about pump lines?  Can you run pump -i eth0 --status for me?

i've no idea what's this process is good for, that's why i asked.

|root@sarge:~# pump -i eth0 --status
|Device eth0
|        IP: 172.16.0.243
|        Netmask: 255.255.0.0
|        Broadcast: 172.16.255.255
|        Network: 172.16.0.0
|        Boot server 172.16.0.1
|        Next server 172.16.0.1
|        Gateway: 172.16.0.1
|        Domain: foo.bar
|        Nameservers: 172.16.0.1
|        Renewal time: Thu Aug  9 04:54:29 2001
|        Expiration time: Thu Aug  9 06:24:29 2001

and shouldn't the pump process restore the resolv.conf, if pump
changes it? and isn't resolv.conf a glibc thing, cause the kernel
whould be configured via the procfs?

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daniel

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