Overriding SuSe Defaults.

[Jack Berger]

Another one of YAST2's favorites is to re-write /etc/hosts to what it thinks it
should be each time it runs. This caused me no end of frustration in trying to
figure out how to get pppd running on a system set up w/a nic. 

YAST 2 insists on writing the hostname/IP address into the hosts file if it's
not there.
pppd will pick the host IP address out of the hosts file if it exists, and not
use the IP assigned by the remote host.

Once I figured it out, I just save a copy of my "good" hosts file, and put it
back each time YAST2 runs.

I'm new to Suse, but there must be a place YAST2 looks for a "std" config file
to do its thing. If such a thing exists, one could possibly set that to leave
things damed well alone.

-jhb-


From: dep <dep at linuxandmain.com>

> begin  Bruce Marshall's  quote:
> 
> | I've never had it touch my changes....
> 
> one of its favorites is, when one indulges in the time-honored 
> practice of opening /etc/inittab in an editor and changing the 
> default runlevel from 5 to 3, changing it back the next time you run 
> yast2. which is unconscionable, imho.
> -- 
> dep