Hi there, I think YaST is a very useful tool but there are a few things that I don't like about it; every time I add or uninstall apps with it, it runs suseconfig, which overwrites some files that it shouldn't. For example /etc/resolv.conf - in order to get connected with my particular type of modem I had to edit this file manually. However, it got overwritten after I uninstalled a few apps with YaST today. At first I didn't know what the hell was going on but luckily I recalled a conversation (about SuSE and YaST) that I had with an administrator a while ago and I was able to correct the problem. Like I said, YaST can make your life easier but this is incredibly annoying to say the least! -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng@casema.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I think YaST is a very useful tool but there are a few things that I don't like about it; every time I add or uninstall apps with it, it runs suseconfig, which overwrites some files that it shouldn't. For example /etc/resolv.conf - in order to get connected with my particular type of modem I had to edit this file manually. However, it got overwritten after I uninstalled a few apps with YaST today. At first I didn't know what the hell was going on but luckily I recalled a conversation (about SuSE and YaST) that I had with an administrator a while ago and I was able to correct the problem. Like I said, YaST can make your life easier but this is incredibly annoying to say the least!
Which version of SuSE Linux are you running? Since 6.x (I forgot x) SuSEconfig saves MD5 checksums of config files in /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/. Files with an MD5 different from the one saved there will not be touched by SuSEconfig, see the SuSE config shell script /sbin/SuSEconfig and the subscripts in /sbin/conf.d/ for the code for this. Comment lines (starting with '#') are ignored for the MD5 calculation, so if you only add/change comments, SuSE config will stil overwrite it (just 'FYI' for everyone). -- Michael Hasenstein http://www.suse.de/~mha/ Private Pilot (ASEL+aerobatics) since 1998 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Which version of SuSE Linux are you running?
I'm currently running 6.2
Since 6.x (I forgot x) SuSEconfig saves MD5 checksums of config files in /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/. Files with an MD5 different from the one saved there will not be touched by SuSEconfig, see the SuSE config shell script /sbin/SuSEconfig and the subscripts in /sbin/conf.d/ for the code for this. Comment lines (starting with '#') are ignored for the MD5 calculation, so if you only add/change comments, SuSE config will stil overwrite it (just 'FYI' for everyone).
I configured SuSEconfig so it would leave /etc/resolv.conf untouched CREATE_RESOLVCONF=no This solved the problem. -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng@casema.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Yatsen Ng wrote:
Which version of SuSE Linux are you running?
I'm currently running 6.2
Since 6.x (I forgot x) SuSEconfig saves MD5 checksums of config files in /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/. Files with an MD5 different from the one saved there will not be touched by SuSEconfig, see the SuSE config shell script /sbin/SuSEconfig and the subscripts in /sbin/conf.d/ for the code for this. Comment lines (starting with '#') are ignored for the MD5 calculation, so if you only add/change comments, SuSE config will stil overwrite it (just 'FYI' for everyone).
I configured SuSEconfig so it would leave /etc/resolv.conf untouched
CREATE_RESOLVCONF=no
This solved the problem.
This brings up another question / plea: It's sometimes hard to tell wether a variable in rc.config is used to actually modify a file (like the above example) or is just a variable used in a bootscript. I'd hope there could be a way to make this a bit more obvious and give a chance to switch off SuSEconfig for specific issues only, without hunting to much through rc.config. Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I read in the manual that you are supposed to run suseconfig after editing and making changes to /etc/resolv.conf to make the changes effective. Mark On Wed, 17 May 2000, Yatsen Ng wrote: -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi, On Thu, May 18 2000 at 05:05 -0400, Mark B Withers wrote:
I read in the manual that you are supposed to run suseconfig after editing and making changes to /etc/resolv.conf to make the changes effective.
If you change /etc/resolv.conf directly you don't have to run SuSEconfig, only if you make changes to /etc/rc.config that have to be propagated to /etc/resolv.conf (or any other config file). Ciao, Stefan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote:
I read in the manual that you are supposed to run suseconfig after editing and making changes to /etc/resolv.conf to make the changes effective.
Well, not in practice I guess. As soon as /etc/resolv.conf was replaced with the backup that I had I was able to get connected again without running suseconfig. -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng@casema.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Try change the setting CREATE_RESOLVCONF to "no" in /etc/rc.config and SuSEConfig will not touch you resolv.conf at all. Cheer, Wayne Yatsen Ng wrote:
Hi there,
I think YaST is a very useful tool but there are a few things that I don't like about it; every time I add or uninstall apps with it, it runs suseconfig, which overwrites some files that it shouldn't. For example /etc/resolv.conf - in order to get connected with my particular type of modem I had to edit this file manually. However, it got overwritten after I uninstalled a few apps with YaST today. At first I didn't know what the hell was going on but luckily I recalled a conversation (about SuSE and YaST) that I had with an administrator a while ago and I was able to correct the problem. Like I said, YaST can make your life easier but this is incredibly annoying to say the least!
-- Yatsen Ng yatsenng@casema.net
It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux...
-- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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Hi Wayne,
Try change the setting CREATE_RESOLVCONF to "no" in /etc/rc.config and SuSEConfig will not touch you resolv.conf at all.
I already did that (read my other reply) but thanks anyway. -- Yatsen Ng yatsenng@casema.net It said "Needs Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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