Tony Molloy <tony.molloy@xxxxx> writes: > On Saturday 10 November 2012 16:05:49 lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> apparently network manager continues to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf >> with incorrect data. Adjusting it with system-config-network >> doesn't help. >> >> I have: >> >> >> ,---- >> >> | UUID="4881d1f8-79a5-46f3-a490-2464eebd89aa" >> | NM_CONTROLLED=yes >> | ONBOOT=yes >> | TYPE=Ethernet >> | IPV6INIT=no >> | NAME="System em1" >> | HWADDR=00:24:21:f3:94:ed >> | BOOTPROTO=none >> | DEFROUTE=yes >> | IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no >> | USERS=root >> | USERCTL=no >> | IPADDR=192.168.178.20 >> | NETMASK=255.255.255.0 >> | GATEWAY=192.168.178.1 >> | DNS1=127.0.0.1 >> | PREFIX=24 >> >> `---- >> >> >> ... and the copies of that file under the different names are all >> the same. After some time, /etc/resolv.conf will be empty, and it >> sometimes is missing the "search" entry. >> >> Why is the network manager going crazy and doesn't stick with the >> information I'm giving it, and how do I fix this? Name resolution >> going down because /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting overwritten >> causes very annoying interruptions. >> >> I know I could disable network manager, but that isn't really a >> solution. I need it solved before I go to sleep, though. >> > > A kludge to fix this is to make resolv.conf immutable. Then > NetworkManager or nothing else can interfere with it. > > Set up /etc/resolv.conf as you want it. > > Then as root: > chattr -i /etc/resolv.conf > > Now nothing can change /etc/resolv.conf > > If you need to edit it later then as root: > chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf > > A kludge but it works ;-) Cool, thank you :) I didn't know about the chattr command and what it can do. That may be very useful :) -- Fedora 17 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
