On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 18:49 +0000, tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Basically it is telling me it cannot open hosts. > An ls shows -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 391 Aug 14 10:59 /etc/hosts which > looks like it is readable. Does it also need to be writeable? I can't see any reason why that file needs to be writeable to other users. Are you sure it means the /etc/hosts file, and not some other hosts file pertinent just to itself? -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
