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Yep, that's your command or "shell" prompt. After that dollar sign is where you type.

 

can someone send me a pm.. doesn't matter what's in it

 

My computer locked about 4 times. Had to manually restart each time. Now I'm back.

 

Because of the terminal thing or the ad?

 

thanks, was just wondering if it still worked

 

This is where I am now:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost










[ Read 9 lines ]
^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Page ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where Is ^V Next Page ^U UnCut Txt ^T To Spell

 

Yep, down under "::1 localhost", on a new line, add "127.0.0.1 yzus09by.com". Then you want to save and exit, which is what those things at the bottom are informing you about. That caret (^) means "Ctrl". So, Ctrl-X will exit and ask you if you want to save to /etc/hosts/, hit enter and then "Y" to confirm.

Or you can save first with Ctrl-O and then hit Ctrl-X. Doesn't matter which way.

 

[video=youtube;9uWjt2y_G0Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uWjt2y_G0Q[/video]

 

time to go to bed now. Goodnight gentlemen & ladies

& hope it'll work out for you pm.

 

When I try to close the window I get: Closing this window will terminate the following processes inside it: login, bash, nano
with the clickable options to... 1-cancel
2-terminate

 

Night One, Have a good sleep.

 

Annnd, When I reloaded this page my computer locked.

 

Did you exit nano (the editor) first with Ctrl-X? So, ideally you would be back at that prompt that you original quoted.

 

I did control X, and that was the popup window I got.

 

It was still on the screen where you typed? If so, cancel so you are back to where you typed, then try Ctrl-O first, then Ctrl-X.

 

Sorry. They added audio to the ad and I had to reboot a few times.

I lost everything I typed.

 

:hi:

 

I still get the popup window with the warning I posted (cancel or Terminate) - I did Ctrl-O and Ctrl-X.

 

Hi Thore! How's your leg?

 

Ok, I'm unclear on where you left off. So, you didn't get the "127.0.0.1 yzus09by.com" part added?

If you are having trouble with nano and saving it, maybe you could try this from your command prompt:

Code:

sudo open -t /etc/hosts

That would again ask you for your pass but try to open it the standard TextEdit graphical editor rather than the terminal editor. The reason you need to do this way is so you can open it with "sudo" (super user do) because it's a protected system file that only the root or admin user can edit. But, I'm unclear on what works which version of OS X. That's why i went with nano because that kind of command line stuff has always been there and doesn't really change.