[dundee] Fedora Core 3 htree error

[Alan S Frost]

Thanks Gordon for the speedy response.

I have no problems with any of the files within /etc only the /etc 
attributes.

Yesterday (11th Oct) when I first became aware of the situation it it 
locked down (made read-only) all of the files in the /etc tree until I 
rebooted the server this morning. I am now able to read & write to files 
in the /etc tree successfully.  The "lsattr /etc" attributes still 
remain the same though "----------I-- /etc". As you will see from my 
previous post this problem also affected "/sbin" directory as well. I 
have searched high and low on the web and have not found a suitable 
reason for the cause nor a solution.

Alan

gordon dunlop wrote:
> I have never seen this problem before as /etc/hosts.deny normally writes
> O.K. for blocking an I.P. The default permissions are normally
> read-write owner (root) and read only for other groups and users e.g.
> -rw-r--r--. So if you were trying to write to the file when not in
> administrator mode this would happen. Sorry if that is the only help I
> can give.
>
> Gordon
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> Alan S Frost wrote:
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>> I am running a Fedora core 3 Linux server for numerous client
>> websites.  Everything, apart from a proliferation of SPAM which is on
>> the increase, was working OK until yesterday when I hit a problem 
>> trying to save an updated /etc/hosts.deny file when it said the file
>> was read-only. The file attributes all indicated no issue.
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