/etc/hosts rewriting problem

Pablo Wolter pwolter at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 14:44:48 UTC 2005


Martin Holt Juliussen wrote:

>søn, 05,.06.2005 kl. 19.33 -0500, skrev Pablo Wolter:
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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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>Have you checked if the hosts-file change back if you change location
>back to the one you edited your hosts-file in? Network admin is runned
>with sudo (gksudo), so it is no bug that it has the rights to edit the
>hosts file. And if it changes the hosts-file back to the state it was in
>the different locations I would call it a feature. If it just erase it
>every time, I would file a bug.
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>Maybe I have misunderstood something, but hope this helps.
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>Martin
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No, it don't change /etc/hosts back depending on location, it just
delete the entrys so it's a bug.

Thanks.

Pablo.




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