On 5/5/06, dan_A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> When you re-save the file after editing, ensure that your editor does
> not add a .txt or some other silly extention to the filename - if it
> does - it won't be read by the rc startup scripts (this is why you can
> safely make backup copies of it as desribed above)
>
> After editing, the simplest way for you to get the control file to be
> re-read is to reboot your machine.
>
> -coop
I was able to find the file the way Peter had written, made the
change directly in the file but was unable to save it. It wouldn't
allow overwriting. I then "opened" it in/through terminal which
opened the file outside of terminal, and I still was unable to
overwrite and save. How is this "private" file to be opened in a text
editor?
dan_A
*smack* DUH - it's owned by root... Way to go coop - you're posting to
a MacOS list, you're not talking to a fellow Sun/BSDi admin... I
wrote the cp command with a root prompt earlier and forgot to
explicidly (sic?) mention that....
I'm away from a mac right now (never have been succuessfull at getting
OS X, Linux, FreeBSD or even Winblows to run on my BBQ...)
From the terminal, do an ls -la command
% ls -la /etc/hostconfig
what's it come back with?
(sorry to the list to have to do it this way - probably best to just
email me personally and well take it offline)
-c
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