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More details and 10.4 info
Authored by: markcrocker on Jul 03, '05 02:01:00PM
Upgrading to Tiger has broken lots of stuff for me including my hosts, and revisiting my own hint made it clear that the hint didn't quite have enough information because the niload man page wasn't very clear on what the domain should be. So, just to make it clear, the actual command is something like this:
sudo niload -m hosts . < /Users/mcrocker/tmp/hosts
where the last part should be replaced by the path to your old POSIX style hosts file. You can also skip the file and redirect character and type host entries in manually. Another gotcha is that you have to be the administrator to do this, and depending on how you did your upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger), you may find that the Administrator account no longer has a password. You can set this by running the installation CD again and selecting the reset password option from the tools menu rather than continuing with the actual install.

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