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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 |