If you know what you want to do in the hosts file, and I suspect that
just asking the question you may be in that category, form terminal you
can do
sudo open /private/etc/hosts
which will open up you hosts file in textedit ready to be mangled or
improved as you like. Note that /etc/hosts is actually an alias (link)
to the /private/etc/hosts file, so modifying one updates the other.
CB
On 10/17/12 9:06 PM, Esther wrote:
Hi Max,
There is a /etc/hosts file on the Mac, which follows the standard unix
convention for its location. It's a hidden file, which means that
your system won't show you this in Finder unless you actually know
where the location is, or else if you issue commands to turn hiding
off. You probably don't want to edit this directly, although it's
possible to do in Terminal. You can add servers that you want to
connect to from Finder with the Command-K "Connect to Server"
shortcut. I think there's also a free app named "hosts" at MacUpdate
that will set up a system preference pane for configuring your host
file in a clean way. If you describe what you want to do, maybe Tim or
another user can make suggestions.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 17, 11:28 am, Agent086b <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello, is there a hosts file on the Mac? If so where is it?
Thanks for any help.
Max.
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