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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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