On Friday 13 January 2006 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. > > I've never seen that in the files I've edited. I don't edit it much and > have probably just gotten used to looking past most of the # lines. But, > learn something new every day. I've never had a problem, however, with the > manual editing of the file. It's always worked.
Karl: I think it's simply a method that visudo uses to lock the file so that if someone tries a command while you're editing the file, the command should fail. (But I've been wrong before.) -- Jeff Butera, Ph.D. Administrative Systems Hampshire College [EMAIL PROTECTED] 413-559-5556 "We make moral decisions everyday even if we don't know it." Scott Simon (NPR) on the death of 20,000 coal miners annually in China. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
