write a file to etc folder

[William]

Thank you for all your help this group rock's for help I had to add a
file for my blackberry 
On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 20:18 -0500, John Scott wrote:
> And it should definitely be said that absolutely NOTHING in the /etc
> folder should EVER be modified without a backup copy to fall back on.
> Especially if you wouldn't know how to use vi after booting to a
> command prompt to edit the file manually.
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> John
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 10:35 pm
> Subject: Re: write a file to etc folder
> 
> NoOp wrote:
> 
> > On 11/02/2009 01:07 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
> 
> >> William wrote:
> 
> >>> I used gedit to back a file and I need to the etc folder but it says I
> 
> >>> need root access how can I get it to save it ?
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> >> gksudo nautilus.
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> >> Joep
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> >>
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> > 
> 
> > That indeed works. But I hesitate to advise doing that for what appears
> 
> > to be a new linux/ubuntu user... without all the appropriate
> 
> > disclaimer/warnings etc. :-)
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> 
> OK, I'll be a little bit more cautious!!
> 
> Joep
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