On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Paul Sutton wrote:
The message given when clicking on internet dialer which told me I needed a /etc/resolv.conf file with the appropriate permissions. I was told to ask my system admin to do this, (this is great if the user is in a establishment where there is one, but for home users and beginners it can cause a slight problem). I created this (as root), and tried again and the problem was still there, looking at the permissions I had -rw-r--r-- with the owner as root. so I decided to change this to -rw-rw-rw or if right clicking on the file
Probably worth mentioning that this is not a solution that should be used on any "public" box since those permissions will allow anyone to fake any address of their choosing by misdirecting your resolver. A "better" solution would be for the dialer to have a setuid helper that could write to /etc/resolv.conf. I can't remember off-hand whether or not pppd will do this itself. Michael