Am Sonntag, 17. August 2003 00:42 schrieb Olivier Blin: > > No he shouldn't. drakconnect should put it in /etc/resolv.conf, but I > > must admit that I don't see a case where it wouldn't be usefull > > Sorry, but I don't want to use drakconnect, it uses kppp ... > I want to use wvdial and I don't understand why there should be a line > "# ppp temp entry" in /etc/resolv.conf
net_monitor uses kppp for modem. > > # for dynamic DNS support with gnome-ppp and kppp and draknet > > if grep -i '#.*ppp temp entry' /etc/resolv.conf >& /dev/null ; then > > ---- > > If there is a line containing # ppp temp entry > > Ok, but why to do this ? > When should this happen ? > kppp writes /etc/resolv.conf after /etc/ppp/ip-up is run and I guess it > deletes its entries before /etc/ppp/ip-down is run. > I don't know any other soft that writes "# ppp temp entry" entries. Yep. I just wanted to say that you are not right that it doesn't work currently. After digging trough the script I agree that it is solved suboptimal. If , when the option usepeerdns is set, USEPEERDNS is set, that should be used to prove if the DNS should be written to /etc/resolv.conf. The current way breaks config by hand. > > ---- > > PPP_TEMP_ENTRY=`grep '#.*ppp temp entry' /etc/resolv.conf | \ > > tail -1 | sed 's/.*ppp temp entry/# ppp temp entry/' ` > > ---- > > PPP_TEMP_ENTRY="# ppp temp entry", written in a style that it could > > win the most useless use of sed award. > > agree :) > > Thanks for your help.
