Glacial
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Joined: Feb. 2006 |
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,11:59 |
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I'm running into a problem while trying to replace the existing hosts file:
Step Actions 1 vist a web site and download the security hosts file. 2 edit new hosts in beaver to remove the bad localhosts line from it. Use the menu tools->conversions->DOS to UNIX to fix end of lines. Then save it to flash drive sdb1. 3 run bash scrip file that does the following:
cat /etc/hosts /mnt/sdb1/hosts >./hosts sudo rm /etc/hosts sudo cp ./hosts /etc/hosts
This does actually work. It does replace the hosts file but you get the following error on the cp line:
sudo: unable to lookup box via gethostbyname()
And it takes forever to run! Like 20 or 30 seconds! After the new hosts file is in place the error goes away. I would like to automate this so it happens on boot. But I need to get rid of the copy error first (and the horrid time delay). Ideas?
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