Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 28 Oct 2016 12:21 pm, "Glenn English" wrote: > > Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? > > I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created by resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anything. > > I remo

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 27 Oct 2016 at 19:03:21 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? > > I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my > /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created by > resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anyt

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 15:48:27 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2016 15:15:36 Brian wrote: > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: >

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 15:15:36 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > > > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Hes

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 28 October 2016 04:16:14 Glenn English wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2016, at 8:39 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey > > wrote: > > > > BUT... Based on wandering through those pages, it looks like maybe > > some searches related to "how do I add a dns server" (without quotes) > > might land something. One th

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 28 October 2016 15:15:36 Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > >

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 03:15:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Hm. I didn't take any of the mails in this thread as advising any of > > the "many thousands of happy users of N-M" to re

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 16:10:31 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > This was back in the day when removing it too

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 02:51:56PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > This was back in the day when removing it took half the system with it.

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Oct 2016 at 14:07:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > > This was back in the day when removing it took half the system with it. > > ... and Gene was using Ubuntu??? ;-) > > I have never, over many years, had any trouble removing N-

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 28 October 2016 10:19:16 Gene Heskett wrote: > This was back in the day when removing it took half the system with it. ... and Gene was using Ubuntu??? ;-) I have never, over many years, had any trouble removing N-M, which for years I did automatically at installation time. Lisi

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 October 2016 03:30:30 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:59:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 27 October 2016 21:03:21 Glenn English wrote: > > [...] > > > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, > > nuke that puppy with extrem

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread Mart van de Wege
Glenn English writes: > Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? > > I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my > /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created > by resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anything. > > I removed it with Aptitude, a

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-28 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:59:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 27 October 2016 21:03:21 Glenn English wrote: [...] > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, nuke > that puppy with extreme prejudice. I did that

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Glenn English
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 9:12 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But the last time I tried > it on a ubu 10-04 lts install, it had apparently been re-written, and > totally emasculated. I worked out my way for here at the coyote.den and > have not looked for it since. There's a lot to be said for an

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Glenn English
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 8:39 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey > wrote: > > BUT... Based on wandering through those pages, it looks like maybe > some searches related to "how do I add a dns server" (without quotes) > might land something. One thing I saw that sounded good *to me* was a > reference about decla

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 October 2016 22:40:57 Glenn English wrote: > > On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, > > nuke that puppy with extreme prejudice. > > Don't tell anybody, but that's exactly what I want to do. >

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Glenn English
> On Oct 27, 2016, at 7:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > At high risk of starting another flame war about network-manager, nuke > that puppy with extreme prejudice. Don't tell anybody, but that's exactly what I want to do. > Then fix resolv.conf to be a REAL file, it may be a link. Hadn't thou

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/27/16, Glenn English wrote: > Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? > > I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my > /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created by > resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anything. > > I removed it with

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 October 2016 21:03:21 Glenn English wrote: > Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? > > I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my > /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created > by resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anything

Re: resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Michael J. Ford
Hi Glenn, IMHO, when configuring a server you should really just configure your interfaces manually with /etc/network/interfaces and define your nameservers there. That way the your expected servers will always be listed in /etc/resolv.conf. More info here: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfigur

resolvconf troubles

2016-10-27 Thread Glenn English
Does anyone know how to get rid of resolvconf? I'm putting a server together, and resovlconf keeps wiping my /etc/resolv.conf file and replacing the nameserver IP with "# Created by resolvconf" (approx). No nameserver, no anything. I removed it with Aptitude, and the file started talking about