Host/Unhost for adding/removing to/from hosts file, solves "Can't access hosts offline".

[lindblom]

A problem that me and many with me has had with pow is that it uses resolver to map the domains. That is okay as long as you are connected to a network of some sort, but when you disconnect your pow domains dies with the connection. But adding the domains to the hosts file solves this problem, so I added it to the already wonderful powder :)

The solution may not be the most elegant there is, but it works great (at least on my machine). Please pull it and clean it up a bit so it gets baked in to the powder loveliness.

The pow issue ticket for the "Can't access hosts offline" is at: basecamp/pow#104

[lindblom]

Thanks for the comment, I've been away there of the late response. The code works great here on my machine, but I have one concern. After the copy of the newly created hostsfile to replace the old /etc/hosts, the ACL of the new hostsfile sets you (the creator) to owner instad of root. I dont know if this really mathers, guess we could add a chmod after the mv to fix this.

[henrik]

Great idea. Would be nice if you didn't have to remember to "powder host" and it did it automatically after every "powder link", but maybe it would be even more annoying to get password prompts all the time.

[lindblom]

Yeah. But you don't really have to update the hosts file all the time anyway, as its only needed when a network connection is lacking.

[adamyonk]

+1

[kirs]

Very useful

[lindblom]

Thanks guys :)

[dedene]

+1

[prognostikos]

+1 - working great for me