2014-09-07 17:00 GMT+02:00 Andrey Repin:
> Adding to what other people said, most self-respecting antivirus applications
> explicitly block access to system hosts file.
> For obvious reasons.
> If you absolutely NEED to modify it, and can't resolve your issues in any
> other way, disable hosts file
Greetings, Frank Fesevur!
> On my Win81 machine I tried to edit /etc/hosts with vim. When I try to
> write the file I get this error:
> "/etc/hosts" E166: Can't open linked file for writing
> Since /etc/hosts is a symlink to
> /cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts so I tried to edit the
2014-09-05 4:33 GMT+02:00 Darik Horn:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Frank Fesevur wrote:
>>
>> Why can't vim write the file, or even better the symlinked file? I'm
>> quite sure editing the symlink works in Win7, but can try tomorrow.
>
> Starting "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe" through a "Run As Ad
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Frank Fesevur
wrote:
>
> Why can't vim write the file, or even better the symlinked file? I'm
> quite sure editing the symlink works in Win7, but can try tomorrow.
Starting "C:\Cygwin\bin\mintty.exe" through a "Run As Administrator"
context doesn't produce an eleva
Hi,
On my Win81 machine I tried to edit /etc/hosts with vim. When I try to
write the file I get this error:
"/etc/hosts" E166: Can't open linked file for writing
Since /etc/hosts is a symlink to
/cygdrive/c/windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts so I tried to edit the
file with the full path but that
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