Editor can't edit

[alex]

Wander Boessenkool wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:17 -0500, alex wrote:
>  
>
>>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 
>>    
>>
>
>Yes! He's called 'root'
>
>If you're looking for a graphical editor, try 'gksudo gedit'
>
>gksudo is for launching graphical-programs with root-privileges, but in
>_your_ desktop.
>
>If you want something from the command-line try somethng like:
>
>$sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst   OR
>$sudo emacs /boot/grub/menu.lst OR
>$sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.lst   Etc...
>
>Just pick your favorite editor (vi), and remember that sudo is for
>cli-programs, gksudo for gui-programs.
>
>
>Or maybe your /boot partition is mounted read-only check the output from
>'mount' and if /boot has something like:
>
>/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (ro)
>
>edit your /etc/fstab and change the 'ro' there into 'rw', remount /boot
>(umount /boot &&  mount /boot) and try again... (you can always change
>it back to read-only later)
>
>There are even far more possibilities than this, but I think I've
>covered the most common ones, if not drop me line and we'll start lsattr
>and the likes...
>  
>

Thanks for all the info.  I'll check this out..   The trouble may not be 
with the editor, it may be that
menu.lst is locked for some reason..

alex, the OF