From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17318 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2002 09:37:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 17311 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 09:37:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ns.suxdotorg.co.uk) (80.192.161.67) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2002 09:37:20 -0000 Received: from pajhome.org.uk ([192.168.0.250]) by ns.suxdotorg.co.uk (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g899bqtX018571 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:37:52 +0100 Message-ID: <3D7C6D5F.A9D4CCC5@pajhome.org.uk> Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 02:45:00 -0000 From: Paul Johnston X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Suggestion: /etc/hosts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00355.txt.bz2 Hi, 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 In fact, you could do this to a few other files in that directory, like services and protocols. hosts is the only one I commonly edit though. Paul -- 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/