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Re: Which resolv.conf file?



On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:09:38PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 05:55:17PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 10:27:01AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > wooledg:~$ dpkg -S resolvconf.1
> > > systemd: /usr/share/man/man1/resolvconf.1.gz
> > 
> > tomas@trotzki:~$ dpkg -S resolv.conf
> > manpages: /usr/share/man/man5/resolv.conf.5.gz
> 
> resolv.conf(5) is the configuration file for the DNS resolver in libc.
> 
> resolvconf(8) is a Debian package that intercepts attempts by various
> other packages to mangle your /etc/resolv.conf file, and lets you control
> how they can or cannot do so.
> 
> resolvconf(1) is apparently an alias for resolvctl(1) which is part of
> systemd, and has absolutely nothing to do with ANYTHING, other than
> getting in the way if a naive person (in this example, me) tries to
> run "man resolvconf".

:-)

Cheers
-- t

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