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On Mar 8, 2013 5:27 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Anyone know if there's a way to get /etc/hosts to support the notion of |
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> an include file? I did my homework and found nothing, maybe someone else |
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> knows more. |
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> I really do need this, I have an app that discovers things on the |
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> network and knows their address. This makes it's automated way into DNS |
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> but takes a few days, and another app needs to use the fqdn right now. |
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> So /etc/hosts is the way to go for the interim three days. |
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> I've worked around it by creating /etc/hosts.d/ containing a header and |
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> a data file. cat the two and redirect to /etc/hosts.d/hosts and the real |
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> hosts file is a symlink to that. It's a sub-directory as none of these |
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> apps run as root and only root can modiy the real hosts file. |
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> This works well enough, but a supported include mechanism would make |
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> life so much simpler, not to mention easier for my colleagues to |
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> understand what the blazes I set up :-) |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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An option would be to create a cron job which generates the hosts file |
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every minute. The cron job should also insert a header on top of the hosts |
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file telling: |
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+ this file (hosts) is dynamically generated |
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+ by a system cron job |
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+ the cron job's script location |
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Besides, you said you're going to need this workaround only for a couple of |
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days, so installing Samba4 might be an overkill. |
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Rgds, |
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