Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:50:06 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/93940: [patch] dhclient-script writes in /etc which should be in /tmp Message-ID: <200602281350.k1SDo63W061134@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/93940; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To: Nick Hibma <nick@anywi.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/93940: [patch] dhclient-script writes in /etc which should be in /tmp
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:45:47 +0200
On 2006-02-28 13:20, Nick Hibma <nick@anywi.com> wrote:
> dhclient-script writes into /etc/resolve.conf.std instead of in
> /tmp. If you mount the root partition read-only on a soekris
> (embedded system) you cannot do this and the script will
> (silently) fail and not set resolv.conf at all.
This is probably silly, but since dhclient will eventually *have* to
write `/etc/resolv.conf' isn't it safe to assume that it can also write
to `/etc/resolv.conf.std'? Unless, of course, the `/etc/resolv.conf'
file is a symlink somewhere else I guess...
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