Editor can't edit

Le grand pinguin rm at mh-freiburg.de
Tue Dec 7 17:21:21 UTC 2004


On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:58:58PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2004, 08:44 -0800 schrieb Vram:
> > Ubuntu can edit it....
> thats exactly what my startup settings tool does...
> it is ran with gksudo and modifies the values for timeout and default in
> the menu.lst (...only this two).
> 
> so i dont really understand the issue here, why shouldnt a tool with
> root privileges not be able to edit a root owned file ?

Oh, serveal reasons come up:

 - read-only filesystem 
 - 'imutable' attribute set on the file 
 - editor ran out of swap/tmp space :-)
 
> it works for at least 50 users from which i recieved positive feedback
> (even there were more downloads already).

Probably a nice tool, but the fact that something worked for 50 (or 50000
for that matter) users unfortunately doesn't say anything about the possibility
of a problem :-/ 
Curious to find out about what happened ....
 
  RalfD

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> 	oli
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