stupid of me .should have checked the permissions. But thanks suresh for
pointing that out ( should have been flamed !!). I am thinking about
changing the permissions to
rwxr--r-- root root /etc/hosts
i shouldnt be that dangerous
sreangsu
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> sreangsu acharyya rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> > Time to time i update that. Now instead of su ing everytime i though i
> > would do something like this:write a one line script as root containing
> > echoe -e "127.0.0.1 /t $1">>/etc/hosts
>
> You _have_ to su in, iirc. Or at least be logged in as root.
> In sun boxes, /etc/hosts, sendmail.cf etc are write protected by default - you
> have to save with :wq! if you want to change them.
>
> -s
>
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