Yes, those are other valid ways to do it. It's a bit of overkill to just ensure you have an old working copy of a config file, but to each his own. My way gains from the fact that a simple "ls -l" lists them in ASCII collating order.
The original poster was asking why he got an error message when he tried to edit a file. I don't think pointing him at revision control systems is an appropriate response. He's still working on permissions and vi. Incoming from Shawn: > Isn't this what revision control is for? RCS, or CVS, or Subversion.... > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of s. keeling: > > You can change yours to that with "chmod 644 /etc/fstab". And to be > truly paranoid, you can always make a copy of the file before you > change it. I have things like /etc/X11/XF86config-4_works_20040420, so > if I break anything I can back up to a known good copy. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
