On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 03:02:25PM -0500, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Kurt H Maier wrote:
> > L. V. Lammert wrote:
> > > After update, each time dnsmasq was started/restarted, it threw an
> > > error reading the file pointed at by addn-hosts:
> > >  Jul 25 16:49:40 marvel dnsmasq[4547]: failed to load names from 
> > > /etc/internal_hosts: Permission denied
> > > 
> > > Tried every combination of user and file permissions on thefile, no joy.
> > > 
> > > Ended up swapping that file for /etc/hosts, and came up fine.
> >
> > Have you checked that selinux is not interfering?
> >
> selinux not installed, ..
>
> > Does the file have the appropriate label?
> >
> Never had a label on a file, or is this semantics?
>
>       Thanks!
>

Could it be just a simple thing like
read permissions on file /etc/internal_hosts ??

File /etc/hosts usualy world readable.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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