Hosts file

[Ragni Singh]

Hi all,

can anyone tell me how teh hosts file in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts gets maintained. We have one that gets maintained in /etc/hosts but dont know about this one. Any help is truly appreciated.

[Hazem Mahmoud_3]

This one does not need to get maintained I believe because it is a default one. It used for looking at how the default host file looks like.

-Hazem

[Ragni Singh]

I dont believe thats correct becasue it seems whenever we make a chnage to /etc/hosts, this particular file gets updated as well.

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

take a look here:
http://people.redhat.com/harald/redhat-config-network/help/network-profiles.html

[Ragni Singh]

Thanks but that stil doesn't tell me how both hosts file relate to one another.

[Hazem Mahmoud_3]

Here might be a good place to start:

http://archive.lug.boulder.co.us/bymonth/2002.10/msg00160.html

Hope that helps!

-Hazem

[Martin P.J. Zinser · Accepted solution]

Hello,

the file gets maintained for you "under the covers". The active hosts file used on your server is /etc/hosts . As stated earlier here,
the one in profiles, would be used in case you had different environments setup on your system (typically used on a Notebook you want to attach to different networks). If you use the redhat tools they will update the active profile as well as the original hosts file.

Greetings, Martin