On Wednesday 28 May 2003 13.59, Michael D Green wrote:
something (!?!) comes along behind me and "corrects" these lines (it leaves the other lines alone) to simply:
198.162.0.201 puddleglum.mylocaldomain.com puddleglum
Am I right in thinking puddlegum.mylocaldomain.com is the machine's "official" name is, i.e. the name you set up in YaST?
It's most likely SuSEconfig that changes the hosts file. You can get it to stop by editing /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig and setting the CHECK_ETC_HOSTS variable to "no"