lars1106
13th November 2003 13:02 UTC

Making an entry to the hosts file
Hello all
I am trying to add an entry to the hosts file using the modern UI..
But I am not sure how to go about this, have been looking in the manual for quite some time now. Without luck
Can anybody help out here with a snipplet of script for this?

Thanks in advance

Lars

kichik
13th November 2003 13:07 UTC

Use FileOpen, FileWrite, FileRead and FileClose. See the Archive for examples.

lars1106
13th November 2003 13:39 UTC

Hosts file
"Use FileOpen, FileWrite, FileRead and FileClose. See the Archive for examples."

Thanks for the reply, this is what I have been doing, especially in the filesection of the archive, and also in the examples, and I cannot find some code I can use. I know I have to use the 4 functions you mention above, but my skills in NSIS is still too small... So I was hoping for sode code.. Someone must have tried this..

Wbr
Lars

kichik
13th November 2003 13:53 UTC

The Archive is full of file altering code randing from deleting a certain line to replacing a certain strings across multiple lines. Just search for FileWrite using the search function and you're bound to found something that could help.

lars1106
14th November 2003 07:25 UTC

Thanks, found some usefull information, and appended this to project,however.. If you see the example below, when I write to "somefile.txt" it works, but when writing to the hosts file it does not... Any ideas?

; Write to hosts file
;FileOpen $4 "$DESKTOP\SomeFile.txt" a
FileOpen $4 $SYSDIR\drivers\etc\hosts a
FileSeek $4 0 END
FileWrite $4 "$\r$\n" ; we write a new line
FileWrite $4 "Test"
FileWrite $4 "$\r$\n" ; we write an extra line
FileClose $4 ; and close the file

An additional question.. I think mosts hosts file per default is read only, do I have to change attributes as well..

kichik
14th November 2003 11:15 UTC

Yes, a file can't be opened for writing when its read only atrribute is set. Remove it using SetFileAtrributes.

mtech
31st January 2007 07:32 UTC

i want to edit a ini file. on host the file is readonly mode
i did the following
IfFileExists "c:\bos.ini" +3 0
WriteIniStr "c:\bos.ini" "operating systems" "c:\asd" '"aasd"'

than also it does not write anything to the ini file..

please help

Red Wine
31st January 2007 07:38 UTC

your relative jump for IfFileExists is away (+3) from the WriteINIStr instruction, according to your code above, you're writing to the file if does not exist (0).