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Issue 11: Gas Mask Deleted My Hosts File
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Status:  Invalid
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Closed:  Feb 2009


 
Reported by skyle...@gmail.com, Feb 18, 2009
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
Project Member #1 2ndal...@gmail.com
I have no Mac computer here at the moment to try to reproduce this bug.
Open Terminal and write "ls /etc/gasmask/". It should be there.
Feb 24, 2009
Project Member #3 2ndal...@gmail.com
I was unable to reproduce this problem.
Mar 22, 2009
#4 josh%sin...@gtempaccount.com
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
Project Member #5 2ndal...@gmail.com
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?

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