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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:50:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/38778: dhclient infinite loop on ro /etc/resolv.conf
Message-ID:  <200206130650.g5D6o4F14394@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/38778; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, cjm2@earthling.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/38778: dhclient infinite loop on ro /etc/resolv.conf
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:24:13 +0200

 This is really fun! If you set resolv.conf immutable,
 the dhclient-script will be *terminated* on issuing the
 echo ... >/etc/resolv.conf, i.e. no further instructions
 will be executed. The dhclient thinks the script failed
 (well, it did), and tries another time :-/
 
 It's also worth noting that setting 'schg' is NOT the
 same as making /etc/resolv.conf ro; mounting /etc ro
 should be yet another case.
 
 Here's how to reproduce this w/o using dhclient:
 
 1) Create a small shell-script test.sh:
 echo `date` >>foo
 echo "done!"
 
 2) Create 'foo' and set immutable:
 touch foo
 chflags schg foo
 
 3) Run test.sh and notice how the 2nd echo is never
 executed:
 
 bsd# sh test.sh
 test.sh: cannot create foo: error 1
 
 How do I trap this event in sh? Using
 	eval 'echo ... >>foo'
 doesn't work, either. Using
 	eval 'echo ... >>foo &'
 works in a way, but isn't an option in dhsclient-script
 for worst-case scheduling...
 -- 
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