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gaenserich / hostsblock

an ad- and malware-blocking script for Linux
https://github.com/gaenserich/hostsblock
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Using hostsblock for polipo #31

Closed pickfire closed 9 years ago

pickfire commented 9 years ago

I hope you can add it to the README.md to show how to use hostsblock in polipo by converting /etc/hosts

sudo sed 's/127.0.0.1 //' /etc/hosts >> /etc/polipo/forbidden
gaenserich commented 9 years ago

Sounds good. You could even add this line of code to your hostsblock.conf's "postprocess" subroutine, e.g. 

postprocess() {
    sed 's/127.0.0.1 //g' /etc/hosts > /etc/polipo/forbidden
}

I changed ">>" to ">" so that your /etc/polipo/forbidden doesn't keep getting bigger and bigger each time hostsblock runs.

pickfire commented 9 years ago

Is it a better way to use hostblock in this way:

hostsblock -e sed 's/127.0.0.1 //g' /etc/hosts > /etc/polipo/forbidden`

Instead of editing the source file with

sed -i '/postprocess() {/a     sed 's/127.0.0.1 //g' /etc/hosts > /etc/polipo/forbidden' ~/.hostsblock.conf
gaenserich commented 9 years ago

There is no need to edit the source file. The configuration option postprocess () {} in /etc/hostsblock/hostsblock.conf can handle this without manual intervention (assuming that you would use the systemd service or a cronjob.

pickfire commented 9 years ago

What do you mean? I am using polipo as an advertistment blocker I don't think it will route through hosts.conf (I have tried it) because I use polipo as an advertistment blocker.

gaenserich commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure what you mean. hostsblock cannot be used as you have it in this command:

hostsblock -e sed 's/127.0.0.1 //g' /etc/hosts > /etc/polipo/forbidden

nor

sed -i '/postprocess() {/a     sed 's/127.0.0.1 //g' /etc/hosts > /etc/polipo/forbidden' ~/.hostsblock.conf

Moreover, to the substance of your issue: If you want to use polipo with hostsblock, you can have hostsblock overwrite the /etc/polipo/forbidden file using the postprocess() {} parameter in /etc/hostsblock/hostsblock.conf as stated above. This will have hostsblock create the /etc/hosts.block or whatever target file you have configured in /etc/hostsblock/hostsblock.conf and then, after creating it, overwrite /etc/polipo/forbidden with the same blocking information. There is no need for an extra step or to modify the source code or the like.

pickfire commented 9 years ago

Sorry, if hostsblock overwrite /etc/hosts, it should be:

sed 's/127.0.0.1 //g' /etc/hosts > /etc/polipo/forbidden

This is because polipo does not need the 127.0.0.1 in each line.