How to stop Network Manager (I asssume) overwriting /etc/hosts in 10.10?

[Ray Leventhal]

On 03/22/2011 04:34 PM, Chris G wrote:


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 > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 03:36:18PM -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote:
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>> Perhaps issuing the command:
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>> sudo chattr +i /etc/hosts
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>> after making your specific edits will keep it from being re/over-written.
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>> Not tested, just a thought.
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> I had tried setting /etc/hosts read-only (chmod 0444) and that didn't
> work, I'm not sure if the above would work better.
>

Hi Chris,

I did test the immutable flag (+i) and it seems to keep anything from 
writing to the file on which it is set.  This may well fix your problem.

HTH,
-Ray

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