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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers /etc/hosts Post 302230760 by agasamapetilon on Sunday 31st of August 2008 08:04:23 AM
Old 08-31-2008
In fact the file you want to know a bit more is hosts, its complete path is:
Code:
/etc/hosts

Have a look here:
Hosts file - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...utorial51.html

Last edited by agasamapetilon; 08-31-2008 at 09:09 AM..
 

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BBHOSTSHOW(1)						      General Commands Manual						     BBHOSTSHOW(1)

NAME
bbhostshow - output the full bb-hosts file SYNOPSIS
bbhostshow [--bbdisp] [--bbnet] [filename] DESCRIPTION
bbhostshow(1) dumps the full bb-hosts file to stdout. It follows "include" tags in the bb-hosts files, and prints the full contents as seen by the bbgen(1) and bbtest-net(1) utilities. If no filename is given, bbhostshow displays the file pointed to by the BBHOSTS environment variable. OPTIONS
--bbdisp Show the bb-hosts file following include statements as a BBDISPLAY server would. --bbnet Show the bb-hosts file following include statements as a BBNET server would. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
BBHOSTS Filename for the bb-hosts(5) file. SEE ALSO
bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5) Xymon Version 4.2.3: 4 Feb 2009 BBHOSTSHOW(1)
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