2014-09-07 17:00 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin: > Adding to what other people said, most self-respecting antivirus applications > explicitly block access to system hosts file. > For obvious reasons. > If you absolutely NEED to modify it, and can't resolve your issues in any > other way, disable hosts file protection first.
Just to make sure I just disabled Kaspersky and tested again. That is not the cause of this problem. It would have surprised me a lot, since nano and the echo command work as expected. Regards, Frank -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple