On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 04:07:39PM -0400, Mark Maciolek wrote:
> For the second time in a few months, one of my BackupPC clients has 
> disappeared from the hosts file. When I went to add it back, I noticed 
> another client missing. I added the first client back in and in the log 
> it showed the second client as being removed.

How are you adding/removing clients? Via the gui, direct file edit?
Is it possible somebody else is changing the file at the same time?
 
> Has anyone seen this happen to them or a reason why it happens?

I have not seen this happen, but then again our hosts file is
configuration managed and not modified via the gui so...

> BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.6

Current release is 3.2.0 released last July and I know there were some
gui improvements, but I am not sure if locking etc was one of them.

Since centos 5.6 is a new release, when it first happend a few months
ago what OS were you running?

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