[mythtv-users] Mythweather quit working?

[Tim Litwiller]

You are correct - a check needs to be made that w3.weather.com isn't 
already in the hosts file.

Max Waterman wrote:
> Wouldn't this fill up your /etc/hosts file?
> 
> I'd suggest something like (using tcsh and not fully tested) :
> 
> ( fgrep -v www.weather.com /etc/hosts ; host www.weather.com | awk '{ 
> print $4, "\t",  $1}' ) > /etc/hosts.N && mv /etc/hosts.N /etc/hosts
> 
> also, it does depend on your /etc/nsswitch.conf (or /etc/resolv.conf, 
> netinfo, depending on your OS) using the hosts file before dns.
> 
> $ fgrep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts:      files dns
> 
> Max.
> 
> Tim Litwiller wrote:
> 
>>
>> or if you need a very quick hack and you aren't willing to recompile a 
>> package this should work
>>
>> put this in cron all on one line to run once a day or so
>>
>> echo "`host www.weather.com | cut -d" " -f 4` w3.weather.com" >> 
>> /etc/hosts
>>
>>
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