[Herefordshire] Hosts file corrupted.

[Mark Broadbent]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 12:55 +0000, Julian Robbins wrote:
> 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.

Does this happen after you reboot the computer?  In RedHat systems the
hosts file gets refreshed (I think) from the current network profile.
If that profile were corrupt you'd see the /etc/hosts become corrupt
each time.

Thanks
Mark

> 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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