| Issue 11: | Gas Mask Deleted My Hosts File | |
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Opened program, clicked on gas mask icon, clicked on hosts file "hosts" and instead of opening the editor, it completely deleted the file without warning. Now I have absolutely no copy of my hosts file anywhere. This is a huge issue. How do I go about getting my old hosts file back?
Feb 19, 2009
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2ndal...@gmail.com
Feb 24, 2009
I was unable to reproduce this problem.
Mar 22, 2009
Same thing happened to me. It changed the HOSTS file to a shortcut. Might be a result of running Gas Mask from the mounted disk image rather than copying it to the hard drive. It is a real bug.
Mar 24, 2009
This is how Gas Mask works: All hosts files are in /etc/gasmask/ folder. If you activate one file (let's say hosts1), then it will be linked to /etc/hosts (ln -s /etc/gasmask/hosts1 /etc/hosts) On the first run /etc/hosts FILE will be moved to /etc/gasmask/hosts and will be linked to /etc/hosts. Josh, did you loose the contents of the hosts file also? If you open Terminal and write "cat /etc/hosts" will it display contents of your hosts file? |