From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: 22962@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22962: Something keeps overwriting /etc/hosts
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 20:43:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160310014323.GA29687@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160310002811.0b59a57f@scratchpost.org>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:28:11AM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> If I make it immutable, I get the following message on guix system reconfigure ... :
>
> guix system: error: copy-file: Permission denied: "/etc/hosts"
>
> Aha!
I think that on GuixSD, the hosts file is generated from the system
configuration, specifically the 'hosts-file' field, which is mentioned
in section 7.2.2 Operating System Reference [0].
I assume that the resulting file is recreated each time you reconfigure.
In that case, you'd want to leave the file /etc/hosts alone, and make
your changes in the operating system configuration.
I say "I think" and "I assume" because I haven't actually used
'hosts-file' yet, nor have I looked at that part of the code.
Does that help?
[0]
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#operating_002dsystem-Reference
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-10 1:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 20:42 bug#22962: Something keeps overwriting /etc/hosts Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-09 23:28 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-03-10 1:43 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-03-10 8:39 ` Alex Kost
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