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cdist-type__hosts - manage entries in /etc/hosts
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Copyright (C) 2015-2016 Dmitry Bogatov, 2019 Dennis Camera. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either
version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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ungleich GmbH 2021
7.0.0 Sep 11, 2024 CDIST-TYPE__HOSTS(7)
Description
Add or remove entries from /etc/hosts file.
Examples
# Now `funny' resolves to 192.168.1.76,
__hosts funny --ip 192.168.1.76
# and `happy' no longer resolve via /etc/hosts if it was
# previously configured via __hosts.
__hosts happy --state absent
__hosts srv1.example.com --ip 192.168.0.42 --alias srv1
Name
cdist-type__hosts - manage entries in /etc/hosts
Optional Parameters
state If state is present, make object_id resolve to ip. If state is absent, object_id will no longer
resolve via /etc/hosts, if it was previously configured with this type. Manually inserted entries
are unaffected.
ip IP address, to which hostname (=object_id) must resolve. If state is present, this parameter is
mandatory, if state is absent, this parameter is silently ignored.
alias An alias for the hostname. This parameter can be specified multiple times (once per alias).
See Also
hosts(5)
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