FreeBSD /etc/hosts file gets rewritten after reboot

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May 28th, 2009, 09:40 PM

MRAB54

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FreeBSD /etc/hosts file gets rewritten after reboot

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I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 as a virtual appliance on Vmware workstation. When I add entries to my /etc/hosts file, the name resolution works fine for that session. But when I reboot, the /etc/hosts file gets re-written to what it was before I edited it. Does anyone know why this is happenning? Thanks.

May 30th, 2009, 03:04 PM

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Is it possible that you've got VMWare setup to restore some files on startup? FreeBSD shouldn't normally overwrite /etc/hosts on boot.

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