Re: /etc/resolv.conf being blanked
On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:39:02PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:05:53PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > [Please CC me on replies]
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On my freshly installed Debian jessie system, running XFCE and
> > Network Manager, I'm seeing /etc/resolv.conf being blanked every so
> > often (it seems to be about every 20 minutes). I can't see what is doing
> > this; there's nothing in the system logs which correlates with this event.
>
> See my other post: the brutal (but effective) self-defense tool I used
> (back then, when NM was yet allowed on my boxes ;-) was to "chattr +i"
> the file. With some luck I'd find complaints in the log files which helped
> clear up which program (and in which context) was trying to do something
> to the files.
>
> The nice part of chattr is that it protects the direntry too (so the
> obvious fall-back of removing and re-creating doesn't help).
But I *want* NM to update the file, and I don't have any evidence that
it's NM blanking it here. So preventing updates isn't what I want.
Having said that, you're right that looking for complaints could be
an effective debugging tool. I'll give that a go.
I did just notice that there is a third state that the file sometimes
ends up in, as well as the expected one which begins "Generated by
Network Manager". This is a file which just contains one nameserver
entry containing the IPv6 resolver. Odd.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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