Suggestion: /etc/hosts

Robert Collins rbcollins@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 10 02:45:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 19:23, Paul Johnston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > >>/etc/hosts -> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
> >
> > So, like all great ideas, all that it needs is an actual patch to make
> > it happen.
> 
> Ok, I will have a go at this. As it involves mods to the setup program, I'm
> going to move the discussion to cygwin-apps.

This does not belong in setup. It belongs in a postinstall script for a
package. One possible package is the one John Morrison put together that
I'll be uploading realsoonnow. Another is cygwin itself.

I don't care *which* package gets it, but it's not appropriate for setup
itself.

Rob
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/attachments/20020910/86117112/attachment.sig>


More information about the Cygwin-apps mailing list