Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4498 mails)

[Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:58 PM 11/27/2006 +0100, A. den Oudsten wrote:
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>Carlos E. R. wrote:
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>> The Wednesday 2006-11-22 at 19:21 +0100, A. den Oudsten wrote:
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>>>>>it's not possible to write to file:///etc/fstab
>>>>>
>>>>>How can I overcome this barrier?
>>>>
>>>>/etc/fstab is owned by <root> and you do not have rights to edit as
>>>>/<user>.  To make changes, you must become <root>, ie: sudo or su.
>>>
>>>I did it for su as well as for root!!
>> 
>> 
>> Try another editor. Use "su -", not "su".
>> 
>> - -- 
>> Cheers,
>>        Carlos E. R.

/snip/

What editors other than the user-unfriendly vi and emacs are available
in a root console?  I tried KWrite, but it was not recognized, and if
I ever got into vi or emacs I would do more harm than good!  

--doug

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