> RedHat 5, when using dhcp to configure the interface calls a script
> called "ifdhcpc-done" to be executed after a dhcp interface is
> configured. At the end of the process it updates resolv.conf:
>
> if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf ]; then
> echo "setting up resolv.conf" >> /tmp/dhcplog
> cp /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf /etc
> fi
>
> There is no protection against the dhcplog file being a symbolic link,
> clobbering, blah de blah de blah... (it seems pretty useless to maintain
> it too, since this is the only message that ever seems to appear in the
> log).
This was an oversight on my fault. /tmp/dhcplog was a log file I was using
when originally implementing dhcp support in our scripts. I've fixed this,
and I'll have the update (initscripts-3.32) on our ftp site today.
Thanks for pointing this out Mark.
Erik
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