[TriLUG] Slightly OT: editing /etc/hosts in Mac

[John Broome]

I've found even with sudo you need to do a :wq!  to force the write.


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 02:35:04PM -0400, Breandan Dezendorf wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com>
> wrote:
> > > I need to help a Mac-friend add an entry to his /etc/hosts file.
> > >
> > > I was able to get him into a terminal, and using vi, edited the file,
> > > but ran into permission errors when I tried to save it.
> > >
> > > Would sudo work, or is there a "more approved" method?
> >
> > Be aware that files like /etc/hosts aren't ones that Apple's
> > installers are very careful with.  I've lost contents before when
> > doing major upgrades (10.4.x->10.5).  Also, keep in mind that the
> > .local domain is managed by mDNS, and I don't think entries in
> > /etc/hosts will influence that.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fortunately, this is to accomodate testing of a replacement "public"
> server, by having his browser go to the new machine instead of the one
> that DNS would tell him.
>
>
> Brian
>
>
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