[clue-tech] /etc/hosts changing on Debian

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Angelo Bertolli <angelo at freeshell.org> wrote:
> Can someone give me a clue as to what might be editing the /etc/hosts file
> on Debian?  I suspect the gnome network-admin program,

Almost everything these days uses some form of network-manager under
the covers, and that program is far from reliable and totally
undocumented.

>
> I would like for my hostname to simply maintain the address 127.0.0.1
> without resorting to doing something like chattr +i on /etc/hosts
>

It might be worth it to do exactly that and wait for something to fail
- hopefully with error messages.

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