resolv.conf and dhclient

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Mon Jun 5 12:51:29 UTC 2006


Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> What is the best approach to keep dhclient from overwriting 
> /etc/resolv.conf every time it gets a new lease on an IP address?

Perhaps:

   chflags schg /etc/resolv.conf

> This has been a frustrating search as Google has turned up next to nothing on 
> the issue other than a hack into a script file which should be 
> overwritten when world is rebuilt.

Changing /etc/dhclient.conf would not be overwritten just because you do a 
buildworld, but you would need to pay attention when using mergemaster.

-- 
-Chuck


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