[Asterisk-Users] [OT] What's changing /etc/hosts?

[Chris Shaw]

Why not try 'lsof' to see what processes might have it open or might be
writing to it...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Woods" <asteriskadmin at fuse.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] [OT] What's changing /etc/hosts?


> do a 'ps -ef | more' or 'ps -aux | more' and look at the processes that
are listed to see if there is something running that might be doing it.
>
> Otherwise, I'd approach it by going through each of the startup scripts
(rc#.d, etc.) and then each application's startup scripts.  A bit tedious,
but...
>
> -Mark
>
> >
> > Occasionally my /etc/hosts file gets corrupted.  The IP address and the
> > host name switch positions with the host name to the left.
> >
> > What this happens, my 7940 phones won't register.  Fixing /etc/hosts
> > allows the phones to register.
> >
> > Do any of you Linux gurus know who is corrupting the hosts file?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Michael Welter
> > Introspect Telephony Corp.
> > Denver, Colorado
> > +1 303 674 2575
> > mike at introspect.com
> > www.introspect.com
> >
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