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authorThomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>2016-04-29 21:54:45 +0200
committerThomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>2016-04-30 03:16:41 +0200
commit9f29cc13e7fc8afde887d2832f75b5372ec83457 (patch)
treeef02dc9680589e7e6e146faa2083e25c714b8707 /man
parenta47c13a7a2cd66644adf2459690f9c3bb96235ab (diff)
downloadNetworkManager-9f29cc13e7fc8afde887d2832f75b5372ec83457.tar.gz
man: clearify rc-manager symlink setting in NetworkManager.conf
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-rw-r--r--man/NetworkManager.conf.xml9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml b/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml
index 95ff884c46..d6fd5ebf21 100644
--- a/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml
+++ b/man/NetworkManager.conf.xml
@@ -316,7 +316,12 @@ no-auto-default=*
always write resolv.conf to its runtime state directory.</para>
<para><literal>symlink</literal>: NetworkManager will symlink
<filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> to its private
- resolv.conf file in the runtime state directory.</para>
+ resolv.conf file in the runtime state directory. If
+ <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>
+ already is a symlink pointing to a different location, the file
+ will not be modified. This allows the user to disable managing
+ by pointing the link <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> to
+ somewhere else.</para>
<para><literal>file</literal>: NetworkManager will write
<filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename> as file.</para>
<para><literal>resolvconf</literal>: NetworkManager will run
@@ -324,7 +329,7 @@ no-auto-default=*
<para><literal>netconfig</literal>: NetworkManager will run
netconfig to update the DNS configuration.</para>
<para><literal>unmanaged</literal>: don't touch
- <filename>resolv.conf</filename>.</para>
+ <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.</para>
<para><literal>none</literal>: deprecated alias for
<literal>symlink</literal>.</para>
</listitem>