There is a Github Action workflow that automatically generates packages for different systems. I can only test on Linux and Windows, so I need help to test all options:

• [x] Linux/Mac/Window binary
• [x] deb package
• [x] AUR package
• [x] scoop
• [x] Brew tap
• [x] snap (pending add feature to work properly)

Please add comments if you have tested it any version of this list. Thanks!

UPDATE: Finally the snap build is approved to have proper permissions :rocket: !

Something change on aur publish step and it is broken.

Check how to fix it. Here are the logs from the latest build: https://github.com/guumaster/hostctl/runs/891503728?check_suite_focus=true

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---------------- AUR Package version hostctl/1.0.12 ----------------
# aur.archlinux.org:22 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_8.3
---------------- ssh://[email protected]/hostctl.git ----------------
Cloning into 'hostctl'...
Warning: Permanently added the ED25519 host key for IP address '5.9.250.164' to the list of known hosts.
------------- BUILDING PKG hostctl ----------------
==> Making package: hostctl 1.0.12-2 (Mon 20 Jul 2020 08:15:26 PM UTC)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found v1.0.12.tar.gz
==> Validating source files with sha256sums...

Error: Invalid formula: /opt/homebrew/Library/Taps/guumaster/homebrew-tap/hostctl.rb formulae require at least a URL Error: Cannot tap guumaster/tap: invalid syntax in tap!

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I use /etc/hosts to block websites during work and it exceeds 20,000 lines. When listing profiles, it all gets outputted.

Describe the solution you'd like I would love there to be a minified output flag (through persistent configuration? hostctl config minimal)

Describe alternatives you've considered outputting to /dev/null, but I want to see enabled/disabled profiles.

Thinks I'd like to add:

• [ ] hostctl sync k8s -n namespace -p profile
• [ ] hostctl sync minikube -p profile
• [x] hostctl sync docker -p profile
• [x] hostctl sync docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -p profile

Also with a --watch flag to monitor and react to changes

Hi, to remain in line with other projects that provide a brew tap might I suggest creating another repo called homebrew-tap. This would allow you a central point for all your homebrew formulae (I hope you go on to create more projects, this one is great) as well as allowing users to install hostctl as well as subscribe to your tap with a single command brew install guumaster/tap/hostctl. This is the same way goreleaser does it (Gotta love a tool that "eats its own dogfood").

Any ideas how to integrate this with Docker?

I need something that recognizes when a container starts and add then a hostname to the hosts file with the ip of the container (maybe the project name from docker-compose). Would be fantastic to automate, so I don’t have to remember all the service names and there port redirections.

Describe the bug I have a profile file with 23,000 lines that used to work just fine. With 1.0.0 (and now 1.0.2), hostctl no longer works. hostctl status didn't work. I removed all profiles to start fresh and the big file would not be added --from.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. sudo hostctl add nsfw --from https://github.com/smhmd/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/hosts/nsfw -q (there's an idea. Profile files --from URLs.)

Expected behavior hostctl to load the profile

System OS: Linux

Additional context Loading that profile worked in 0.10.x.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. blocking websites to work, I sometimes need to use a website for a limited amount of time to not sidetrack. Do you think it would be useful to add a time flag?

Describe the solution you'd like

$ hostctl enable -p youtube -t 15 # enable youtube profile for 15 minutes

Describe alternatives you've considered

$ hostcl enable -p youtube && sleep 900 && hostctl disable -p youtube

Error: profile 'awesome' doesn't exists in file has a typo as it should be doesn't exist. But, the error message itself is not that comprehensible.

Proposal to change it to Error: unknown profile 'awesome'.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Caderno [email protected]

Fixes issue #72

I've also removed the spaceRemover and tabReplacer since strings.TrimSpace() should get rid of either of these.

https://guumaster.github.io/hostctl/docs/getting-started/installation.md is not accessible. Given that hostctl is listed here https://github.com/alexellis/arkade#catalog-of-clis , arkade get hostctl also fails like this:

Downloading: hostctl
2022/12/10 12:30:12 Looking up version for hostctl
2022/12/10 12:30:13 Found: v1.1.3
Downloading: https://github.com/guumaster/hostctl/releases/download/v1.1.3/hostctl_1.1.3_macOS_.tar.gz
Error: incorrect status for downloading tool: 404

Describe the bug On Windows 11 hostctl do not set or list profiles when use "add/list" command. It seems to be a parsing error in hosts file.

I use Netmaker on Windows and hostctl sets every few minutes new entries in hosts file. Netmaker gets other peers IP addresses over mqtt and set hosts entries with hostctl

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

hostctl.exe add TEST1 -f hosts.txt OR hostctl.exe add domains TEST1 test.loc --ip 10.10.10.10

hosts (looks correct):

##################################################################
# Content under this line is handled by hostctl. DO NOT EDIT.
##################################################################

# profile.on TEST1
10.10.10.10 test.loc
# end

hostctl.exe list No profile is shown

+---------+--------+-----------------+-------------------+
| PROFILE | STATUS |       IP        |      DOMAIN       |  
+---------+--------+-----------------+-------------------+  
| default | off    | 102.54.94.97    | rhino.acme.com    |  
| default | off    | 38.25.63.10     | x.acme.com        |  
| default | off    | 127.0.0.1       | localhost         |  
| default | off    | ::1             | localhost         |  
| default | on     | 10.10.10.10     | test.loc          |  
+---------+--------+-----------------+-------------------+

hostctl.exe add domains TEST2 test2.loc --ip 10.10.10.11 hosts file seams not correct parsed. Profile name is set. Content-block is set under first profile.

# profile.on TEST1
10.10.10.10 test.loc

##################################################################
# Content under this line is handled by hostctl. DO NOT EDIT.
##################################################################

# profile.on TEST2
10.10.10.11 test2.loc
# end

hostctl.exe list No profile

+---------+--------+---------------+-------------------+
| PROFILE | STATUS |      IP       |      DOMAIN       |
+---------+--------+---------------+-------------------+
| default | off    | 102.54.94.97  | rhino.acme.com    |
| default | off    | 38.25.63.10   | x.acme.com        |
| default | off    | 127.0.0.1     | localhost         |
| default | off    | ::1           | localhost         |
| default | on     | 10.10.10.10   | test.loc          |
| default | on     | 10.10.10.11   | test2.loc         |
+---------+--------+---------------+-------------------+

hostctl do not find profiles

hostctl.exe disable TEST2
[×] error: unknown profile name
hostctl.exe disable TEST
[×] error: unknown profile name

Expected behavior Set and list profiles under windows

System (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows
• Version: 11

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. A clear and concise description of what the problem is. Ex. I'm always frustrated when [...]

Describe the solution you'd like A clear and concise description of what you want to happen.

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Additional context Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

i really want to use this by yum or dnf ( Centos ) may i ask this package manager repo. i wish that. my god~

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. This is a great tool, as the hosts file can be a b**ch to organize! The issue I am having is that I use tools to add entries to the hosts file and (maybe I simply do not understand the tool) would like to somehow manage these entries easily. I use tools like Spybot Anti-Beacon which automatically add entries specifically to the default "hosts" file.

Describe the solution you'd like Would like to somehow combine files into one hosts file. As stated, maybe I don't fully understand how it works. If I were to divide my hosts file into profiles, then use Anti-Beacon to update its entries, I would like to be able to add all of those new entries to the "Anti-Beacon" profile basically. If this is possible already, then disregard this.

Describe alternatives you've considered What I've considered, as hostctl (to my knowledge) can target other hosts files easily, is to have several files for each tool and use hostctl to combine these into a "master" hosts file. This is cumbersome as it involves the swapping of hosts files (e.g if I have all Anti-Beacon entries in a 'hosts.beacon' file, when I want to update these entries I have to rename it to "hosts" and then use the tool to update the entries, rename it again to 'hosts.beacon' and use hostctl to import the new entries).

Additional context The documentation for this tool seems (to me) inadequate as I am not entirely sure how to exactly import entries to the hosts file. I just now found how to add profiles, as the set command is not part of the "CLI Usage" documentation for some reason...

I'm thinking on adding a simple UI. Maybe some Vue frontend and a web server to perform the updates.

Or maybe something more like k9s

Not sure if this should be splitted to a separate binary and keep it separate from core functionality.