touch facebook

[athibault]

if you go into JAMF there is a script to block touch facebook, but it doesn't work.
I have look at the script, and I can't see anything wrong.

!/bin/bash

# swipely-host.sh

Check for certain entry in /etc/hosts

Add the entry if it's not found

Adam Codega, Swipely

Built off of http://thecodecave.com/2010/11/03/adding-a-line-to-etchosts-via-bash/

change domain to url you wish to block. subdomain would be www, m or anything else.

SUCCESS=0
domain=facebook.com
needle=touch.$domain
hostline="127.0.0.1 $needle"
filename=/etc/hosts

Determine if the line already exists in /etc/hosts

grep -q "$needle" "$filename" # -q is for quiet. Shhh...

Grep's return error code can then be checked. No error=success

if [ $? -eq $SUCCESS ]
then exit 0;
else # If the line wasn't found, add it using an echo append >> echo "$hostline" >> "$filename" # Let's recheck to be sure it was added. grep -q "$needle" "$filename"

if [ $? -eq $SUCCESS ] then exit 0; else exit 1; fi
fi
Help
Anne

[adamcodega]

Hi Anne
It looks like you found my script from this Jamf Nation thread. It looks like some lines were combined into one by accident.

If you look a the line that begins with else, there's a pound symbol, which is how you start a comment in a Shell script. So everything after that symbol is "commented out" and is not read by the computer as commands to run. You need to start a new line beginning at echo "$hostline" so it looks like this:

else # If the line wasn't found, add it using an echo append >>
echo "$hostline" >> "$filename" # Let's recheck to be sure it was added.
grep -q "$needle" "$filename"

The if statement that follows it looks fine the way you've formatted it.

Also on Jamf Nation you can format your post so that a script is displayed in it's own block quote. When posting, click the >_ button next to the bold/italics buttons and the quotation button. Then you can paste your script in to help readability.

[adamcodega]

Also, are you blocking touch.facebook.com on macOS devices? That looks like the Facebook's website for iOS.

[athibault]

sorry, no dice.

[adamcodega]

@athibault What happens when Jamf runs the script? Is there an error message?