Hostmanager not removing /etc/hosts entries after a destroy (or halt / suspend)

[devopsgroup-io]

Hostmanager not removing /etc/hosts entries after a destroy (or halt / suspend)

[dpehrson]

I have noticed this behavior as well.

[aberfeldy]

+1
my hostfile looks like garbage now because no old entries are removed on destroy etc..

[timrobertson100]

+1

[pbitty]

PR #52 was merged a few days ago and should mostly fix this issue.

It will ensure that the entries in /etc/hosts are the latest ones and anything that should not be there (for that vagrant environment) is removed.

We haven't found a way of reliably detecting halted or suspended machines (see this comment on #56), but destroyed machines will definitely be removed. Machines that are taken out of the Vagrantfile (even if they are still running) will also be removed from the hosts file when you run vagrant hostmanager.

A new gem should be out soon, hopefully within the next week. If you'd like to try it already, you can install it from source like this:

git clone https://github.com/smdahlen/vagrant-hostmanager.git
cd vagrant-hostmanager
git checkout 93fd35
bundle install
bundle exec rake gem:build
vagrant plugin install pkg/vagrant-hostmanager-1.3.0.gem

I'm closing this for now. If anyone has a suggestion on how to detect halted/suspended machines, please open a new issue and we'll go from there. :)