Re: Adding openresolv to base

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:06 AM, David Holland 
<dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 06:09:34PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
>  > > While I've also been bitten by this, I personally think creating
>  > > another active resolv.conf would create confusion instead of solving
>  > > very much pain.
>  > >
>  > > /var/run/resolv.conf.$DATE as an auto-magic backup of /etc/resolv.conf
>  > > whenever resolv.conf was changed would be more useful, in my opnion.
>
> Look in /var/backups/etc.
>

Neat.  Is that documented somewhere?  I didn't see it in the guide.

>  > > Even an /etc/resolv.local would be less confusing than
>  > > /etc/resolv.conf + /var/run/resolv.conf (+
>  > > /usr/pkg/var/run/resolv.conf? + ... ?)
>
> I don't see that there's any confusion, since the master file would be
> pointing to the automatically maintained subsidiary one.
>

I didn't realize you were explicitly naming the extra file in
/etc/resolv.conf.  Call it whatever you want; an 'include' directive
would be excellent.