Host file profile script.

[bartszu]

Yo peeps.

I created 2 host files and some short "sudo cp" scripts for them.
My intention is quite simple, one script is coping "allow" host to etc, second script is coping "disallow" host to etc.
So I want functionality like: I want some parental control I run - "disallow script", party time I run - "allow script".
Seems quite simple but.
Some times FF keeps something in cache so some sites still loading after I run a script, not all but some.
This is not what I want, Bleachbit or reboot helps but this is not what I want.

I am looking for command or program with similar functionality.
But command fixing caches is fine.

Thanks

[bartszu]

Hmm so i would have to add lines for browsers like:

rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/cookies.sqlite

There is any way to clean all at once ?

[Habitual]

~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/places.sqlite is something I'd look at?

Good luck.

[Flemur]

You have two /etc/hosts files and want to switch between them?

I'm seeing two internet answers:
- that changes to /etc/hosts take place immediately.
- that you need to restart networking to see the changes.

A better solution would be to set up two browser profiles, one with a lot of blocking and one without.

I moved all my blocked URLs from /etc/hosts to privoxy, the main advantage being that you can't use wildcards in /etc/hosts, but you can with privoxy.

It's real easy to set up two browser profiles

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firefox -P profile.default -new-instance
firefox -P profile.safemode -new-instance

The first profile has lots of blocking: privoxy and adblock
The second doesn't use privoxy or adblock.

[bartszu]

Ahha I found it

sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd restart