[dundee] Fedora Core 3 htree error

[gordon dunlop]

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:
>
> 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.
>