Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:42:49PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> Yes. Still the open question remains: why is it being changed although
> the "immutable" attriibute was set?
>
> The OP says so, and we must believe that, but I've a hard time imagining
> how that happens (whatever program is doing that, let's assume it is
> root, would have first to explicitly revert that attribute).
>
So, I was fiddling with this again yesterday and I set/reset the
immutable attribute several times. On the occassions when the file
changed it was when immutable was not set. I set it again about 10
hours ago and resolv.conf has not changed since then.
I am confident that it was set the first time when I reported that the
file was changed even though I had made it immutable. That makes me
wonder if some process had an open file descriptor on it. However,
there was nothing in lsof. In fact, I have not been able to see any
evidence of any actual process changing resolv.conf except for the
changed file itself. I never see anything in any of the logs indicating
that something is changing resolv.conf or complaining that it can't.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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