[GLLUG] /ect/hosts gone bad

[Michael George]

Okay, so "su", "sudo", and "su -" won't work...

Log in as root from the command prompt and look at the file.

On Tue, July 3, 2007 2:11 pm, Jordan Robison wrote:
> I am using ubuntu 7.4 and su, sudo, and su - are giving me the same
> responds.
> unable to lookup jordan via gethostbyname()
>
> I was clearly not thinking right because it did not make a back up.
> Although
> I have tried to scp the host file from my notebook to the desktop and i
> get
> permission denied.
>
> On 7/3/07, Stephan Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 03 July 2007 13:39:13 Jordan Robison wrote:
>> > I was messing with the hosts file and changed something around and I
>> spent
>> > the rest of the night trying to fix it. Here is the problem that
>> happens
>> > every time I use sudo:
>> > sudo: unable to lookup jordan via gethostbyname()
>> >
>> > I am not able to do anything under Su and from what it looks like is
>> that I
>> > might have to reformat unless you geniuses out there know of any
>> better
>> way
>> > of  helping me fix this problem.
>>
>> You give no indication as to what operating system you're using, but if
>> you
>> have single-user mode, you ought to be able to boot up into that, and
>> then
>> fix the hosts file.
>>
>> This is also a good time to develop a system of saving and storing
>> critical
>> data files, such that if they get munged they can be restored quickly.
>> My
>> /etc (OpenBSD) is about 8M in size, so its easy for me to make a tarball
>> of that dir frequently.  Add /var/log, /var/www and perhaps a few others
>> and you have the core of a configuration backup.
>>
>> --STeve Andre'
>>
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