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Re: Hosts file
- From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe dot de>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:26:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: Hosts file
- References: <OE35yI71cV9tGfyrqd90001e84e@hotmail.com>
* Martin Gainty (03-03-25 18:07 +0100)
> Where does cygwin look for hosts file ?
"Cygwin" doesn't care about "hosts". The applications are looking for
it in /etc and it is symlinked to the Windows default file in
%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\.
Thorsten
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