Re: httpd failure

[Rajesh Fowkar <rfowkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Madhu,

I tried with chmod 444 /etc/hosts and made the file readonly but still the 
problem persists.

Why is this happening ? Inspite of being readonly how the file is getting blank
after reboot giving me httpd       [failure]  error on startup

Rajesh

On Sun, 04 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> Hi,
>     Try making the file a read only file...
> It may work....
> 
> Regards
> Madhu R Sudhanan
> 
> Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> 
> > Hi friends,
> >
> > Thanks for all the replies.
> >
> > My /etc/hosts file has got the following contents :
> >
> > 127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain
> >
> > My problem is sometimes during booting linux this file gets overwritten by a
> > blank hosts file and I get the error httpd    failed. I have to again type the
> > above contents in the file. This overwriting of file happens after every two
> > rebootes.
> >
> > Why is this happening ? What should I do to prevent it.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >  --
> > Rajesh Fowkar
> >
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> 
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