network-admin vs. /etc/hosts

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Fri Nov 12 23:35:51 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 03:23:53PM -0500, Jeramy Rutley wrote:

> I attempted to file this as a low-priority Bugzilla entry, but
> gnome-system-tools has "unknown" in the Assign To field.

This type of problem should be reported in Bugzilla; select the "Websites"
product and the "Bugzilla" component.

> This works fine until I run network-admin for anything.
> Run sudo network-admin, and click OK (to exit).  The /etc/hosts file
> is now completely mangled.

It's difficult to say what could be wrong without more detail.  What exactly
do you mean by "mangled"?  When you are able to file the bug, attach the
hosts file before and after to show what changed.

-- 
 - mdz




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