Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Subject: Re: Suggestion: /etc/hosts Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 08:48:07 -0400 Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3D7C9887.8090008@hekimian.com> References: <3D7C6D5F.A9D4CCC5@pajhome.org.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031575682 4630 206.205.138.10 (9 Sep 2002 12:48:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:48:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Paul Johnston wrote: > NT has an equivalent to /etc/hosts, so I think the cygwin install should > create this symbolic link: > > /etc/hosts -> ${SYSTEMROOT}/system32/drivers/etc/hosts This is a great idea, making allowances for variations in the different versions of Windows, of course. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/