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Thanks Gordon for the speedy response.<br>
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I have no problems with any of the files within /etc only the /etc
attributes.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Alan<br>
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gordon dunlop wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:470F7501.4000302@zubenel.freeserve.co.uk"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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
Alan S Frost wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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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