Sorry I think you are a little confused. vi is an editor, any editor will do.
Most linux firewalls have vi installed, so its a matter of using it to edit a file. If the tutrial says "use vi to edit /etc/firewallconf" then you type at a prompt: # vi /etc/firewallconf you can just as easily use any other editor that happens rto be installed on the system, eg if joe is the editor then type # joe /etc/firewallconf So, if you learn a bit of vi, it will serve you anywhere vi is installed (ie practically any unix or unix-like system.) On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:33:16 +1300 Justin Soong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a newbie, for an example tutorials do no incoporate the teaching of VI > into instaslling a firewall for instance. If I just learn a bit of VI but > dont know how to incoporate it into firewalling for example, then it is > total useless. > > For example this tutorial is great, but for a newbie like it is useless if I > have no idea how to incoporate vi into this type of situation. So to Jeremy > Bretenshaw could you put the finewr steps in VI in this tutorial? > > http://www.jeremyb.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=NS-Web_Links&file=index&r > eq=visit&lid=122 > > Justin > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael JasonSmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "linux users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:01 PM > Subject: Re: Re: LAN Firewalling > > > > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:25, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > now-a-days the only real reason for learning vi(m) is that it > > > is virtually always installed on any and all Unix machines. > > I agree with Chris, any system that does not have vi would be a highly > > tied-down firewall or so old as to be up for replacement. There are > > many machines out there which only have vi, however. Learn a *bit* of > > vi. You don't have to be a wiz, but you should be able to do the basic > > editing tasks. I know enough vi to get XEmacs installed on a Debian box > > that has only the "base" packages installed :) > > -- > > Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/ > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
