On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 02:49:19PM +1300, david merriman wrote:
> I did try editing the console.perms file with Vim while in the shell, 
> but I couldn't save the changes as the file was read-only, and I 
> couldn't work out how to make it writable.

Usually because the filesystem is mounted read-only.

mount -o remount,rw /

Make sure you 'sync' before rebooting.

Mike.
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Mike Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>                      ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

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