On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving.
>
> I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am not
> sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it
> lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I wrote
> the 2 DNS nameservers to resolv.conf. As user, I use kppp, log in fine, but
> can't use any app since they can't find the server. Log out, go check
> resolv.conf and it is entirely empty!
>
> Any suggestions? Because I can't really deal with Outlook Express much
> longer. ;-) Thank you,
>
As root, open a console window, call up your favorite console-mode
editor and retype your resolv.conf, making sure it's named in all
lowercase letters (i.e. "resolv.conf" instead of "Resolv.conf")
Here's the permissions on my resolv.conf which works perfectly:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
As you can see it's owned by user "root" and group "root." Also, ONLY
root can write to it, but any user can READ it.
John
