Tapas Mishra: > > I've been having a problem where when our vps provider decides to > restart the server (running Debian 5.0.8), the server fails to > remember changes to /etc/hosts. All I need is an database alias that > is used for the webapps on the server which points to 127.0.0.1 > localhost.
I don't know what keeps overwriting your file, but I assume it actually
just re-writes a single line for localhost. Try adding a new line
pointing to "database" like this and see if that persists:
127.0.0.1 database
J.
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