Re: sarge debootstrap missing resolve.conf

[Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com>]

John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:

> Haines Brown writes:
> > After running cdebootstrap on a new install of sarge (no kernel yet), I
> > found that /etc/resolv.conf was missing.
> 
> A long-standing bug.  /etc/resolv.conf should be in basefiles or something
> but no package owns it.  Just create it.  It should be owned by root,
> writable only by root, and readable by anyone.

OK, did that. Thanks. I'll not bother with the entire /etc/resolvconf
directory and its contents. 

> > On my old sarge, somehow the /etc/resolv.conf had became a symlink to
> > /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf.
> 
> The resolvconf package does that.  If you are not using resolvconf you
> don't want the symlink.
 
Not running a local nameserver.

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       Haines Brown
       KB1GRM