You left the list off in your reply to me - I'm adding it back in my reply.
The best way to find out about an unfamiliar command is to check its man
page. All "chmod" does is change the read-write-execute permissions of a
file, then return you to the command-line prompt. In this case, the line I
gave you to type would change the file's permissions to (as reported by "ls
-l") "-rw-r--r--" -- exactly what you report seeing for the file
/etc/conf.modules .
So, when you write:
>When I do the *ls -l /etc/conf.modules* command line what I get is this:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
how to interpret this depends on when you did it.
If you did it *before* you did the "chmod" command, that means that
permissions weren't your problem.
If you did it *after* running "chmod", this *may* mean that running "chmod"
fixed the problem. (This assumes, of course, that the omitted part of the
line did list the file name /etc/conf.modules).
Did you try (as root) to edit /etc/modules.conf after you did the "chmod"?
How (what editing app) and with what effect?
The only other thing I can think of is pretty far fetched ... that the
filesystem itself is read only. How about this: as root, run one more time
this set of commands ...
df
ls -l /etc/conf.modules
chmod 644 /etc/conf.modules
... and send us the COMPLETE (every single character on the screen) sequence
-- the lines you enter and the results. Maybe that will suggest something.
One last question ... are you *absolutely certain* that you are running
gnotepad as root? Check this by running, from a console or xterm, "ps aux |
grep gnote" while you have gnotepad open.
At 04:36 AM 5/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello Ray -
>
>When I do the *ls -l /etc/conf.modules* command line what I get is this:
>
>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
>
>so this indicates to me that I should be able to write to the conf.modules
>file. But I can't. I still get the same error - that it is read only.
>
>Now the lines you recommend I type, I assume I do that in root in a term
>window. When I typed the first line you advised, all it did was take me
>back to the root prompt - nothing else happened. Rather than go further
>and screw something up, I quit at that point. I thought what would happen
>after typing in the first line was that I would be taken to the
>conf.modules file, but as I said, all that happened was neing returned to
>the root prompt. I might add that I am a relative newbie at Linux RH.
>
>Sure appreciate any more help you can send.
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo
Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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