Editor can't edit

[alex]

volvoguy wrote:

>On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 08:17:17 -0500, alex <radsky at ncia.net> wrote:
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>>UBUNTU installed very easily and looks like it has a lot of potential
>>but I'm wondering ,  is there a super-duper user
>>hidden somewhere?    Super user can't even  make an editor, edit.    If
>>sudo can't do it,  then who can, sdudo, perhaps.?
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>What editor were you trying to use? I can edit my "menu.lst" with the
>sudo command and nano, emacs or gedit.
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I barely started running UBUNTU and grabbed the first editor I could 
find,   gedit.    The
problem may not be in the editor,  it could be that menu.lst is locked.

alex , the OF