Yes Todd, you can. Go to the head of the class. You get an A+. Of course you can, but for reasons of my own, I want to bypass the DNS settings on a couple of my machines to make them a different IP address than what the router is giving. Thanks Terry. I'll try that. I am assuming this executable script would be a shell script (*.sh)?
E On Nov 19, 9:48 am, "Terry Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you could just create a second resolv.conf (call it > resolv.conf.static or something like that). > > To create a script to change it from dynamic to static, just use vi (or > whatever your favorite editor is) to create a file called switchdns.sh (or > whatever you want to call it). Remember to make the script file executable > after you create it. > > The script should look something like this: > > #!/usr/bin/ksh > DYNAMIC_FILE="/etc/resolv.dynamic" > STATIC_FILE="/etc/resolv.static" > RESOLV_FILE="/etc/resolv.conf" > if [ ! -f $STATIC_FILE ]; then > if [ ! -f $DYNAMIC_FILE ]; then > echo "Nothing to do" > else > mv $RESOLV_FILE $STATIC_FILE > mv $DYNAMIC_FILE $RESOLV_FILE > fi > else > mv $RESOLV_FILE $DYNAMIC_FILE > mv $STATIC_FILE $RESOLV_FILE > fi > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are any of you regulars here Linux experts? Specifically, Linux > > scripting experts? > > I'm looking for a script to do some network interface changes > > automatically when launch from my Ubuntu desktop. Specifically, the > > DNS entry from dynamic to a specific static IP. > > Anyone here know how to do this? > > It was recommended on another tech forum (http://www.daniweb.com) to > > just do a rename of the /etc/resolve.conf back and forth. > > Thoughts? I'm looking for some real tech geeks here. > > > E --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
