On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 02:10:49PM -0700, Raymond, David wrote: > I have a problem when I have two wifi services available, say, a hotel > wifi and my cellphone hotspot. Suppose I put the hotel wifi in my > hostname.xxx file and run sh /etc/netstart and I don't like the > results. Removing the hotel wifi from the hostname file, replacing it > with my hotspot wifi, and rerunning sh /etc/netstart results in the > computer trying to connect with the hotel wifi again, even though this > connection is no longer in the hostname file. If I then reboot the > computer and rerun sh /etc/netstart, it connects with the hotspot wifi > as desired. > > My question is whether there is a way to purge the non-desired wifi > connection without rebooting the computer. >
Hi David, In cases like this, I typically don't update my hostname.xxx file and instead run `ifconfig` by hand. For example to remove ESSID foo: ifconfig -join foo Or to remove all known networks: ifconfig -joinlist The `ifconfig` manpage explains this. Regards Tim
