cdist-type__hosts(7)
====================

NAME
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cdist-type__hosts - manage entries in /etc/hosts

DESCRIPTION
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Add or remove entries from */etc/hosts* file.

OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
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state
    If state is ``present``, make *object_id* resolve to *ip*. If
    state is ``absent``, *object_id* will no longer resolve via
    */etc/hosts*, if it was previously configured with this type.
    Manually inserted entries are unaffected.

ip
    IP address, to which hostname (=\ *object_id*) must resolve. If
    state is ``present``, this parameter is mandatory, if state is
    ``absent``, this parameter is silently ignored.

alias
    An alias for the hostname.
    This parameter can be specified multiple times (once per alias).

EXAMPLES
--------

.. code-block:: sh

    # Now `funny' resolves to 192.168.1.76,
    __hosts funny --ip 192.168.1.76
    # and `happy' no longer resolve via /etc/hosts if it was
    # previously configured via __hosts.
    __hosts happy --state absent

    __hosts srv1.example.com --ip 192.168.0.42 --alias srv1

SEE ALSO
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:strong:`hosts`\ (5)

AUTHORS
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| Dmitry Bogatov <KAction@gnu.org>
| Dennis Camera <dennis.camera--@--ssrq-sds-fds.ch>


COPYING
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Copyright \(C) 2015-2016 Dmitry Bogatov, 2019 Dennis Camera.
You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.