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Re: /etc/hosts file permissions



On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 12:53:58AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Ben Collins wrote:
> > You mean /var/lib/dpkg/info/* ? :)
> 
> Okay, to be exact:
> 
> grep '[^[:alnum:]]hosts[^[:alnum]]' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.{pre,post}{inst,rm}
>  
> This finds netbase. Joop, did you perhaps tell netbase to add IPv6
> addressts to /etc/hosts? That could probably trigger it.
>

That's right.
But I don't see how this could have changed file permissions. Netbase
uses 'cat' to add the ipv6 stuff.
Nothing else found in /var/lib/dpkg/info.
 
> Wichert.
> 
> -- 

Joop

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 Joop Stakenborg PA4TU, ex-PA3ABA 
      <pa3aba@debian.org>
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