@Axthorpe 2yrs later and your solution to also check “Do not inherit restrictions from the (application’s) parent process” worked a treat. Thank you! I needed to get DevKinsta to be able to update my hosts file. Tried so many different suggestions and finally your one worked. I might also add for anyone experiencing the same issue: When ticking “Do not monitor the activity of child applications”, make sure to also tick the sub-option, “Apply exclusion recursively”. Not sure why, but I also needed that selected.