Issue 17: Save previous /etc/hosts file during installation and use it as the initial config.
Status:  Fixed
Owner: ----
Closed:  Sep 2010
Reported by simianuprising, Apr 2, 2010
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Gas Mask
2. Add a new hosts file


What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect that Gas Mask copies my existing /etc/hosts file into the
application as the first file in the sidebar. Then I could copy it into a
new one and make changes. 

Instead it seems that Gas Mask completely destroyed my old hosts file and
replaced it with an empty document. 


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.4 on snow leopard.

Please provide any additional information below.
I think it would make a lot more sense to backup the old file and show it
to the user as the first config. This would help people understand what Gas
Mask is doing as well as avoiding the many situations where people have no
backup of their hosts file and can't figure out how to get back to the
state they had before installing gas mask. 

If you don't want to add this feature then you should add warnings on the
gas mask site that people should manually back up their /etc/hosts file
before installation. I'm lucky I had Time Machine to go back and fetch an
old copy of my hosts!

Thanks for the software! It's beautiful and easy to use but this one bug
really had me scared for a second.


Sep 20, 2010
Project Member #1 2ndal...@gmail.com
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Status: Fixed