Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread Sebastien Marie
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 02:04:56AM +, beebeet...@posteo.de wrote: > > I am not sure about what problem you are trying to solve. Won't the > > lines added by resolvd be overwritten anyway the first time you use the > > backed up file? > > What I'm trying to solve is that static part of the con

Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread beebeetles
What I'm trying to solve is that static part of the configuration being mixed up with configuration generated runtime in a single file, which leads to a few inconveniences: - resolv.conf will show up in the diff between backups all the time even if nothing has really changed; Oh come on.

Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
beebeet...@posteo.de wrote: > > I am not sure about what problem you are trying to solve. Won't the > > lines added by resolvd be overwritten anyway the first time you use the > > backed up file? > > What I'm trying to solve is that static part of the configuration being > mixed up with configur

Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread beebeetles
I am not sure about what problem you are trying to solve. Won't the lines added by resolvd be overwritten anyway the first time you use the backed up file? What I'm trying to solve is that static part of the configuration being mixed up with configuration generated runtime in a single file, whi

Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread Fabio Martins
My solution for an static resolv.conf for a long time has been: chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf .. and now disable resovld, of course. If folks use another solution, would be glad to know. -- Fabio Martins On 2021-11-11 17:28, Zé Loff wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 05:36:07PM +, beebeet...@po

Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread Zé Loff
On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 05:36:07PM +, beebeet...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi all, > > I was reading the manual page of resolv.conf(5) today and realized that > paragraph on resolv.conf.tail has disappeared since the upgrade to 7.0, so I > assume that resolv.conf.tail has been deprecated in respons

Re: Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread Theo de Raadt
No, we will not do what you propose because resolvd so far is working for the majority of people, better than we expected. Luckily we provide all the parts including source, and you can do whatever you want with it. beebeet...@posteo.de wrote: > Hi all, > > I was reading the manual page of reso

Some Thoughts on resolv.conf.tail Deprecation

2021-11-11 Thread beebeetles
Hi all, I was reading the manual page of resolv.conf(5) today and realized that paragraph on resolv.conf.tail has disappeared since the upgrade to 7.0, so I assume that resolv.conf.tail has been deprecated in response to resolvd being enabled by default. Previously, my backup strategy was to