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

[Angelo Bertolli]

Collins Richey wrote:
> 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.
>   
I was already a little annoyed with whatever was rewriting my 
/etc/resolv.conf file before, but somehow I can get my system into a 
state where it stops doing that.  This thing seems to change any time I 
use network-admin to adjust the connection, and /etc/hosts is much more 
annoying.

Angelo