/etc/hosts rewriting problem

[Pablo Wolter]

Martin Meredith wrote:

>What's the output of ls -la /etc/hosts ??
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>>>Pablo Wolter wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>I use my laptop in home and office. For office I add manually a lot of
>>>>hosts under /etc/hosts as any linux/unix user use to do. But when I came
>>>>to home and click the icon of Network Connection in the right upper
>>>>corner of the screen and select the "home" location my /etc/hosts file
>>>>is empty and only showing the IP address of the hosts tab.
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>>>>Can anyone teel me WHY in Ubuntu this strange behavior is ocurring? As
>>>>far as I know, /etc/hosts file should be only writable by root and NOT
>>>>by any user. There are other "security" problems like this enabled by
>>>>default in ubuntu that one should be aware of it?
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>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>>Pablo.
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>>>Are you sure you're writing it propely, if you dont edit it as root, it
>>>may not be saving it when you think it is. I've done this plenty of
>>>times (still do sometimes and it confuses me :D)	
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>>That's the funny part....I'm doing it as root and EVERY time I change
>>the location from Network Connection my /etc/hosts file is re writed.....
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-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1216 2005-06-05 17:16 /etc/hosts

Is not weird???

Thanks for the help