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| author | Benjamin Trigona-Harany <slackbuilds@jaxartes.net> | 2013-12-28 10:56:19 +0700 |
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| committer | Erik Hanson <erik@slackbuilds.org> | 2014-01-07 11:13:57 -0600 |
| commit | b68cc21916f0e69f5f6b9affaf2569e30d2320f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0ffed2b196628f6a4f03bed3eb0e2359e6aaff65 /network/hostsblock/README | |
| parent | f21bd1fd8e277d0d99167f072e1d923d4ad79a4e (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-b68cc21916f0e69f5f6b9affaf2569e30d2320f7.tar.gz | |
network/hostsblock: Added (ad/malware-blocking cron script).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/network/hostsblock/README b/network/hostsblock/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..d52b818eb4 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/hostsblock/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Hostsblock is a bash script for Linux designed to take advantage of the +/etc/hosts file to provide system-wide blocking of internet advertisements, +malicious domains, trackers, and other undesirable content. To do so, it +downloads a configurable set of blocklists and processes and their entries into +a singular file. + +The SlackBuild assumes that dnsmasq is not available so it will configure +hostsblock to overwrite the current /etc/hosts file. The install script will +backup the current /etc/hosts file to /etc/hostsblock/hosts.head if it does +not already exist. + +After uninstalling hostsblock, you should copy hosts.head back to /etc/hosts. + +To have hostsblock automatically update /etc/hosts once a week, run: + ln -sf /usr/sbin/hostsblock /etc/cron.weekly/hostsblock |