[Herefordshire] Hosts file corrupted.

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Matt (Pleased your with us :-) & Noel


You have to be root to be able to write cahnges to the file, but you
should be able to read it as a normal user. Strange.

Hopefully, someone else will have had thsi problem before.

If you want to get around this, you can (if you're using IPCop), setup
hosts alias's there instead. Works quite well.

BTW Did you get your broadband and IPCop working ?

Julian

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 11:54:08 -0000, "Matt Stone"
<stone.matthew at gmail.com> said:
> Hi Noel and hi group *waves* (first post and all that)
> 
> When you say you can't gain access to the file is it a permissions
> problem?
> 
> I'm also wondering what have you done to repair it when it's been
> corrupted
> before?
> 
> Cheers
> Matt
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Noel McG." <herlinux at hotmail.com>
> To: "Herefordshire LUG" <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 10:24 AM
> Subject: [Herefordshire] Hosts file corrupted.
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Can anybody tell me why my /etc/hosts file keeps getting corrupted?   This
> > has happened twice now and as far as I know without any interference or
> help
> > from me.   Currently I am not able to gain access to it to correct it.
> >
> 
> 
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