Christopher John Shaker wrote:
How do you convince YaST2 to edit /etc/rc.config again once you modify it with an editor? The 'help' information says that YaST2 uses a checksum to detect that you edited the file, and thereafter refuses to modify it.
This is true for all files mentioned under /var/adm/SuSEconfig/md5/ It's only for system config. files, not for rc.config - you can mix "vi"/any editor and yast/yast2. Maybe you changed something in a way incompatible with shell syntax and now the rc.config parser doesn't work? See if you can parse this file via a shell, in a shell type: . /etc/rc.config and see if this generates errors. For example, you may have forgotten a '"'.
My YaST2 is definitely refusing to display the values of the items in the "System/RC-Config Editor". No matter what I click on in the left side panel, the right side panel continues to display:
'With this Editor, you can edit the variables in /etc/rc.config, the central configuration file of your SuSE Linux system. Please note: many of these variables are set by specialized YaST2 configuration modules like "Network configuration"'
I've been searching documentation and file systems, and don't see how to do it.