* cloudinit/CloudConfig/cc_update_etc_hosts.py

  - Added new functionality to sanitise /etc/hosts

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/CloudConfig/cc_update_etc_hosts.py b/cloudinit/CloudConfig/cc_update_etc_hosts.py
index 856cbae1..10ee5435 100644
--- a/cloudinit/CloudConfig/cc_update_etc_hosts.py
+++ b/cloudinit/CloudConfig/cc_update_etc_hosts.py
@@ -17,12 +17,44 @@
 #    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 import cloudinit.util as util
 from cloudinit.CloudConfig import per_always
+import platform
+import StringIO
 
 frequency = per_always
 
 def handle(name,cfg,cloud,log,args):
     if not util.get_cfg_option_bool(cfg,"manage_etc_hosts",False):
-        log.debug("manage_etc_hosts is not set. not modifying /etc/hosts")
+        log.debug("manage_etc_hosts is not set, checking sanity of /etc/hosts")
+        with open('/etc/hosts', 'r') as etchosts:
+            current_hostname = platform.node()
+            hosts_line = "# Added by cloud-init\n127.0.1.1\t%s.localdomain %s\n" % (current_hostname, current_hostname)
+            need_write = False
+            need_change = True
+            new_etchosts = StringIO.StringIO()
+            for line in etchosts:
+                split_line = [s.strip() for s in line.split()]
+                # skip over malformed /etc/hosts entries
+                if len(split_line) < 2:
+                    continue
+                ip, hostnames = split_line[0], split_line[1:]
+                if ip == "127.0.1.1":
+                    for hostname in hostnames:
+                        if hostname == current_hostname:
+                            need_change = False
+                    if need_change == True:
+                        line = hosts_line
+                        need_change = False
+                        need_write = True
+                new_etchosts.write(line)
+            etchosts.close()
+            if need_change == True:
+                new_etchosts.write(hosts_line)
+                need_write = True
+            if need_write == True:
+                new_etcfile = open ('/etc/hosts','wb')
+                new_etcfile.write(new_etchosts.getvalue())
+                new_etcfile.close()
+            new_etchosts.close()
         return
 
     try: