Re: resolvconf issue

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:04 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 04, 2009 at 01:49:03PM +0200, Ferenc Engárd wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > First, I would like to welcome everybody, as this is my first mail to this
> > list.
> > 
> > I am using vanilla Ubuntu 9.04 with n-m. I have read that n-m supports
> > resolvconf, but unfortunately it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf directly (I
> > tried with wlan connection). This causes problems to me as I cannot use e.g.
> > vpnc from scripts conveniently. Is there any config setting which should be
> > set to utilize the resolvconf instead of writing resolv.conf directly?
> > 
> > If I understood correctly the main work is done by nm-dhcp-client.action.
> > But there is no documentation about it...
> 
> there is a racy issue with resolvconf. stop NetworkManager ... then dpkg-reconfigure
> resolvconf _before_ starting it again.
> 
> The fix would probably be to teach network manager to follow links even if it doesnt
> use resolvconf

Thats probably useful.

Dan