openresolv-discuss

Hi Brendan

On 08/01/2018 17:23, brendan kehoe wrote:
> I am using openresolv 3.7.2-1 in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus). 
> Modifying /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/head and running resolvconf -u 
> updates /etc/resolv.conf but modifying 
> /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base and running resolvconf -u does not > update /etc/resolv.conf. Why is this? Is it not recommended to modify 
base?

Ubuntu/Debian must patch it then or supply symlinks to alternative 
head/tail locations because base is only parsed when resolvconf.conf is 
not present which it is these days by default.

You can set your "base" values in resolvconf.conf instead. See man 
resolvconf.conf(5) for details.


Roy