oops! didn't mean to start anything . . .
I've pretty much just stumbled across how to edit these files without having seen reference to what tool to use - obviously this is required knowledge, people who are doing it already, know how to, someone like me doesn't. Just wanted to check that there wasn't an easier, softer way.
Thanks for the info. I had a look at vi and mcedit, I don't seem to have nano. <flamesuit>I'll stick with kedit.</closing tag>
Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 07:23, Roger Searle wrote:
Yes, this is a good explanation. A question:
I figured out I can edit fstab via [EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# kedit /etc/fstab
as I need to be root. While this works fine, is kedit the "best" editor or is there something simpler/better?
oh dear its holy war time again.
seasoned veterans will say "vi" because it is on every unix system as standard, and is aged, venerable and powerful, but its a bitch to learn for those used to the word processor/notepad paradigm. There are lots of good howtos floating around the net.
"nano" is very easy, and is becoming common for distros to set up as a default, cos it is easy for newbies.
personally I like midnight commander ("mc") and its built in editor (hit "F4" over any filename, or get the editor from the command line with "mcedit"
The other question I had was related to finding group and user IDs without resorting to the gui tool, but google has been my friend!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# id roger
uid=501(roger) gid=501(roger) groups=501(roger)
I'm getting over my command line fear ;-)
Robert Fisher wrote:
This link takes you to a very good, IMHO, explanation of how to mount Windows partitions.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:51, Roger Searle wrote:
I have umask=0. Is this the same as umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat codepage=850,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
