Hi i have a NAS running Linux ARM little endian glibc 2.2.5 , im trying to permanently change the hosts file in /etc/hosts but it keeps reverting to the default setup upon every boot .

Ive tried circumventing this with a script

This works when i enter it manually into putty but when i add it to one of the auto run scripts the hosts file is never canged . Ive had a look in /mnt/md1/local/etc/ but there isnt any hosts file in there and its not used when i copy it in that folder .

Any ideas ?
Thanks

Well it sounds like the device boots out of a compressed system image. Is there any way to modify this image? That would be the only real way to permanently change it.

Im not sure i booted it without any HDD when i first bought it , and yet the operating system was there to format my hard disks to JBOD .

Ive searched the hard disks in and came up empty , That points to some sort of on board storage but its probably stored in flash rom or something like that so tampering is out .

Since changing the hosts files works via telnet that seems to be the easiest way to go . I cant understand why "cp -f /mnt/md1/public/hosts /etc/" fails to copy the file at startup but works in telnet .

Isnt there another command to add lines directly to a text file , i heard of it a while ago something like

"enter text here" >> /etc/hosts

i could try that if i newhow to use it