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Re: [LUG] apt ate my resolv.conf

 

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 14:48 +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 May 2011, Keith Abraham wrote:
> 
> > On 16/05/11 16:41, Philip Hudson wrote:
> >> Just did a debian apt-get dist-upgrade, new kernel, so rebooted, stone me, 
> >> blank resolv.conf WTF!
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Phil Hudson                  http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz
> >> @UWascalWabbit                 PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63
> >> 
> >> 
> > I don't know if you are using a very recent kernel on a Debian system but if 
> > you are then any resolv.conf in /etc/ should no longer exist or at least 
> > point to /etc/run/resolv.conf/resolv.conf.  I think this is all to do with 
> > the new /run directory where many things will live in the future including 
> > resolv.conf.
> 
> 
> eh?
> 
> What has the kernel got to do with it?
> 
> I'm runnig various debians including squeeze, some with 2.6.36.x and all 
> have /etc/resolv.conf. it's been that way for 20 years, why change it 
> now?
> 
> Is this a new thing... just debian, or all distros?
> 
> seems to me they're fixing something that isn't broken...
> 
> Gordon
> 
I am on 2.6.35.13 and have no /etc/run Fedora 14
and Mint 9 2.6.32.21 also 
both have resolve.conf



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