Glacial
  
 
  
 
 
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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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