Re: [Cfengine] Resolv oddities (cfengine 2.0.6 on HP-UX 11.0)

[Tjeerd Hes]

Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our cf.resolv looks like this (Not really, but you get the idea):
>
> 192.168.1.3
> 192.168.1.4
> "domain ourdomain.net"
> "search ourdomain.net thatdomain.org"
>
> However, the /etc/resolv.conf ends up looking like this:
>
> nameserver 192.168.1.3
> nameserver 192.168.1.4
> domain ourdomain.net
> search ourdomain.net thatdomain.org
> search ourdomain.net
>
> Note the last bit added, causing our resolver to ignore searching
> 'thatdomain.org'.

Works as designed.
from a man page `man resolv.conf`  (checked solaris + fbsd);

     The  domain and  search keywords are mutually exclusive.  If
     more  than  one  instance  of these keywords is present, the
     last instance takes precedence.


> AFAIK, this problem didn't exist on 2.0.4.
>
> I did read up on the resolv action, and thought that somehow the
> 'search ourdomain.net' had appeared from somewhere else and since
> the resolv action doesn't delete lines, it would just stick around.
> However, after doing a quickfix for this problem (DeleteLinesMatching
> in a editfile action) I always got the message that the editfile
> action had deleted the line, even if I knew it shouldn't be there.
>
> Anyone got some clues they'd like to share?
>
> //F

Regards,
Tjeerd.
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