write a file to etc folder
William
kc8pdr at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 01:49:17 UTC 2009
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:
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> > On 11/02/2009 01:07 PM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
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> >> William wrote:
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> >>> I used gedit to back a file and I need to the etc folder but it says I
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> >>> need root access how can I get it to save it ?
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> >> gksudo nautilus.
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> >> Joep
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> > That indeed works. But I hesitate to advise doing that for what appears
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> > to be a new linux/ubuntu user... without all the appropriate
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> > disclaimer/warnings etc. :-)
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> OK, I'll be a little bit more cautious!!
>
> Joep
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