On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:58 -0400, timetrap wrote:
dhcpcd is fine. But this is a patch for dhclient. Which is a totally different dhcp client.
When I installed wicd, dhclient was a dependency, if you want to use wicd, you need to use dhclient. If you want to have multiple search domains with dhclient (through wicd), you need to edit your /etc/resolv.conf and append those search domains.
Rather than edit by hand, or run an external script. Why not just patch the dhclient-script?
So yes, something like this SHOULD be unecessairy. But it isn't.
man dhclient.conf and you'll find out about supersede and prepend options. No need to add hacks for /etc/resolv.conf.append files. This is what I have on my OpenBSD machine for dhclient.conf: supersede domain-name "groot.local"; supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.1.2; which replaces dhcp variables with locales from my config. Replacing these with prepend or append will add them to the dhcp-provided options.