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

David L. Willson DLWillson at TheGeek.NU
Mon May 12 14:24:35 MDT 2008


> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:10:51PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > 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.

On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:19:30 -0600, Keith Hellman wrote

> Try
>   $ sudo chattr +i /etc/hosts
> 
> For details
>   $ man chattr

I do the same thing to /mnt/* so I don't accidentally write before mounting.


David L. Willson
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