On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 08:50, Chris Adams wrote: > The behaviour is that running programs continue to use to previous > contents of /etc/resolv.conf. This can be a real problem, as that > includes things like syslogd (some versions basically hang when they > can't resolve IPs, and that can cause all kinds of other programs to > hang when they try to log something). > > It would be nice if the resolver library would stat() /etc/resolv.conf > periodically (no more than once per minute) to see if there has been a > change. <stab type=wild> How about a means of catching a sighup and rereading resolv.conf? </stab> -- Bill Anderson RHCE #807302597505773 bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
