Fabrice FACORAT wrote:
>
[snip]
> > > # Is there a correct "localhost" line?
> > > if !(/bin/egrep
>"^127\.0\.0\.1[[:space:]]+localhost\.localdomain[[:space:]]+localhost$" /etc/hosts >
>/dev/null 2>&1); then
[snip]
> Besides the fact that CUPS should not modify /etc/hosts in a so harder
> way, could you try this line ?
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mountains
> mountains.bellsouth.net
>
> i.e put the name at the end. If you look at the script you see that it
> looked for 127.0.0.1[space]localhost.localdomain[space]localhost
The test is:
if !(/bin/egrep "^127.....localhost$"
^ ^
If your suggestion worked, we'd have a bash bug...
"^" = start of line; "$" = end of line
Hence, unless the line is EXACTLY "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost",
the file gets clobbered...
:^Pierre
