[OpenIndiana-discuss] extra entry in /etc/hosts after each reboot

[wim at vandenberge.us]

Unfortunately, for people (like myself) that put a hostname instead of an IP
address in the /etc/hostname.<interface> files that means the system will become
inaccessible from the network every reboot when running out-of-the-box napp-it.

A simple workaround is to just comment out the section below from the
agent-bootinit.pl script. I have not seen any DNS warnings on the console though
but then again I run headless most of the time. Personally, I'm not fond of
applications that modify system files every time they run (upon first
installation is one thing, but every restart is quite another), but that's just
me.

Wim



> On December 19, 2013 at 6:36 AM Guenther Alka <alka at hfg-gmuend.de> wrote:
>
>
> This is a setting done by napp-it. It adds a entry to /etc/host like
> 127.0.0.1 hostname
>
> reason:
> Without this setting your root console is spammed with dns warnings.
> in newest nightly, i added a comment at this point
>
> Gea
>
> Am 17.06.2013 22:14, schrieb wim at vandenberge.us:
> > Thanks for the useful responses everyone. As one of the responses I received
> > P2P
> > mentioned, it turned out to be a fairly welknown issue with the snippet
> > below in
> > the agent-bootinit.pl script that comes with napp-it and not an OpenIndiana
> > issue at all.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > W
> >
> >
> > # check/update /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 hostname (old hostname missing)
> > my $ok=`hostname`;
> > $r=`cat /etc/hosts`; $r=~s/\n+/\n/gs;
> > @t=(); @t=split(/\n/,$r);
> > foreach my $t (@t) {
> > if ($t=~/^127.0.0.1\s+$ok\b/) { $ok="1"; last; }
> > }
> > if ($ok ne "1") {
> > push (@t,"127.0.0.1\t$ok\n");
> > $t=join("\n", at t);
> > open (PF, ">/etc/hosts");
> > print PF "$t";
> > close (PF);
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On June 17, 2013 at 3:55 PM Roel_D <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Aren't NWam and /network/default running together?
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >>
> >> The out-side
> >>
> >> Op 17 jun. 2013 om 20:16 heeft James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> het
> >> volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >>> On 06/17/13 11:59, wim at vandenberge.us wrote:
> >>>> At this point the interface is plumbed with the 127.0.0.1 address and the
> >>>> machine is essentially unreachable over the network. This machine is a
> >>>> plain
> >>>> OpenIndiana install with napp-it on it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Its replica, installed at the same time and configured identically, is
> >>>> not
> >>>> exhibiting this kind of behavior. I've been searching where during
> >>>> start-up
> >>>> this
> >>>> is occurring but have not been able to find anything yet.
> >>> A few ideas in no particular order:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Right after one of these "bad" boots, do an "ls -l /etc/inet/hosts"
> >>> to find out when the file was modified. Then do "svcs -s stime" to find
> >>> out what service(s) were started at around the time the file was
> >>> touched. Then go look at the method scripts for the suspicious ones.
> >>>
> >>> 2. Assuming it's a "normal" method of some sort that's doing this, grep
> >>> around in /lib/svc/method/*.
> >>>
> >>> 3. Try one of the napp-it lists to see if someone there knows about this
> >>> sort of behavior. I haven't seen it, and all of the old-school
> >>> automatic hosts file modifications I've seen have always had an
> >>> automatically-generated "# ..." comment describing the source of the
> >>> change, so this sounds like something newish.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj at workingcode.com>
> >>>
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