[GLLUG] /ect/hosts gone bad

[Benjamin Cathey]

Typically root is disabled on ubuntu

Jordan - 

This may help

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2583

or possibly

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=278049

DO NOT reload man - it's linux for god's sake ;)

If neither of those fixes your problem, let me know and we can look further.

Regards,

Benjamin Cathey
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----- Original Message -----
From: Michael George
[mailto:george at idealso.com]
To: Jordan Robison
[mailto:jordan.robison at gmail.com]
Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
Sent: Tue, 03
Jul 2007 14:23:21 -0400
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] /ect/hosts gone bad


>->> 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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>->> >>
>->> >
>->> >
>->> >
>->> > --
>->> > Jordan Robison
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>->> >
>->> 
>->> 
>->> -Michael George
>->>  Ideal Solution, LLC
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