/etc/hosts writing backwards

[alexheizer]

Every night my /etc/hosts file rewrites the main entry for my server backwards, which creates problems for people sending email from the Webmail programs. I know it rewrites it every night because I have to fix it every morning. It should read, for example (made up):
64.50.129.72 server.domain.net server

Instead it gets rewritten as:
64.50.129.72 server server.domain.net

I have recently had to rename my server, and my CPanel license was reset by the datacenter. My two questions are:
1. Should I re-reset my servername?
a. Will this fix this problem?
b. Will I need my datacenter to re-reset my CPanel license?
2. Alternatively, if I chmod my /etc/hosts to something like 544 (unwritable by all), will that cause anything to malfunction on CPanel's end? That information, once set, will never change unless/until the server gets assigned another IP address, at which time I can update it manually.

Thanx

 

[linux-image]

chattr +i /etc/hosts

that will keep the file unchanged.

 

[alexheizer]

chattr +i /etc/hosts

that will keep the file unchanged.

Thanks! But will it cause any problems with CPanel, if CPanel keeps trying to write to it? I don't know how CPanel handles getting frustrated, like will it just exit there, or will it give up and move on? If it gives up and moves on, then that's fine, if it bombs then that's bad.

 

[linux-image]

i dont think there will be a problem.

 

[SEP800]

I believe I am having the same issue. Any ideas as to why this happens?

Thanks!

 

[alexheizer]

I believe I am having the same issue. Any ideas as to why this happens?

Thanks!

Did you also change your hostname after you had been initially set up? That's when this behavior began on my server.

 

[SEP800]

alexheizer, I didn't touch a thing. It just started doing it out of the blue which I find weird. I think the new Stable build of cPanel is the culprit and this may be a bug. A big one at that.