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Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:29:45 +0000

There’s also an app someone whipped up to manage hosts files. Haven’t tested it on Lion.
http://code.google.com/p/gmask/

Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:26:54 +0000

You can do this with automator too, I wrote about it here:
http://dividtechnology.com/blog/archives/110

Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:21:44 +0000

OK To make this work in LION you need to do use a copy instead of a symlink as Lion will not follow a symlink anymore.

Delete the test for real files Lines 32-36

Change “sudo ln -f” to “sudo cp -f” in line 39 (line 39 before the other lines are deleted).

You also do not need to do the steps to create the initial symlink (third item in step 1)

Hope that helps.

Matt.

Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Ben Hass

Ben Hass — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:12:09 +0000

Sam,

I tried using your script on OSX lion, and it worked for a few days, but soon I started getting sandboxd errors in Console. My local development file would only be read if AirPort was turned off. I since switched to using GasMask (just editing my hosts file through that editor), but thought I’d let you know about this issue in case you want to modify the tutorial.

Thanks,
Ben

Comment on Fast switching your /etc/hosts file in Mac OS X by Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:31:29 +0000

Hi there and thanks for this great tutorial.

I have another thing that I’m trying to get done without any luck. I’d like to be able to run 2 browsers in the same time (Firefox and Chrome for example), but loading their data from 2 different hosts files. This will enable me to check a site I’m working on vs the actual live site, without actually making the switch of the hosts files.

Has anybody been able to do that on a mac? I heard it’s possible on Linux if you recompile some parts of the kernel, but I couldn’t find anything like that for a mac.

Thanks again for this nice article

Comment on Fast switching your /etc/hosts file in Mac OS X by restoring@4.2.1 error 1600

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Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Gabe da Silveira

Gabe da Silveira — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:06:46 +0000

It’s worth noting that as of Lion, /etc/hosts can not be a symlink. I’m not sure why… I’ve tried chowning and chomping the target file to no avail. Maybe there is a place on the system where it could be symlinked to, but I haven’t found it.

Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Mark

Mark — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:55:32 +0000

I cant seem to get the switching working in Lion. Are the symlinks going to the correct location for Lion?

Comment on Managing multiple /etc/hosts files in Mac OS X by Johannes

Johannes — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:07:35 +0000

adding tab completion is a one-liner if you add the following to your ~/.profile:
complete -W ‘$( ls /usr/local/share/hs | sed s/hosts.//)’ hs

Comment on Installing MySQL 5.0 on Mac OS X 10.5 client by Andrew Nacin

Andrew Nacin — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 06:26:18 +0000

Sam,

This just saved me quite a bit of trouble after switching to a new Mac and a new version of MySQL. Thanks for the perfect write-up.

Nacin

P.S. Code is poetry