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

[James Carlson]

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.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>