Yeah I though about that, but it seems he was asking more about a 'how
to edit things' question than a fast way to fix the current problem.
Jerry
p.s. (smile) Don't forget all hate mail goes to /dev/null
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 01:47 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
>
> Often the easiest way to get someone to do this is to supply them with
> a
> perl line Jerry.
>
> Something like:
>
> Open Terminal
> enter:
>
> perl -pi -e 's/DNSSERVER/DNSERVER/'
> /System/Library/StartupItems/BIND/BIND
> killall [whatever...]
>
> then if things seemed to work nicely, type:
>
> exit
>
> and retry.
>
> Just a suggestion :) I saw someone point out the same concept for
> making
> new files, ie) for a .forward, just tell the user to do:
>
> ssh -e 'echo hen at example.com > .forward' hen at example.net
>
> or somethign close to that. Was a very nice way of looking at it I
> felt.
>
> Hen
>
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> Allan,
>>
>> You can try the following in Terminal to edit "reserved" text
>> documents:
>>
>> 1) Open a terminal window and use the 'cd' command to navigate to the
>> folder that has the file.
>> type ls -la then hit return (there is a space there) you will
>> get a
>> long listing, you want this to detemine any .xyz ending the file has
>> type: sudo pico filename (with .xyz ending)
>> You will be asked for your admin password. Enter it, then a text
>> editor
>> will open up in your terminal window. It is easy to use, it uses the
>> cursor arrow keys to move around.
>> Make the changes you wish to. To save the file you will use the
>> control-o (it is called writing out the file). Then use crtl-x to
>> exit.
>>
>> 2) If you know the full path and filename, then just open a terminal
>> window and type sudo pico /path/filename and hit return.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>> On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 08:27 AM, Allan Atherton wrote:
>>
>>> Schoun Regan <schounregan at mac.com> wrote:
>>>> ... there is a spelling error in BIND that came with 10.2. The
>>>> actual
>>>> BIND
>>>> service in /System/Library/StartupItems/BIND/BIND has a spelling
>>>> error to
>>>> restart the service in case of error (ironically, usually 'caused'
>>>> by
>>>> lookupd). You will see DNSSServer instead of DNSServer inside BIND.
>>>> Try
>>>> removing the extra S, as root, and that should also help clean
>>>> things
>>>> up.
>>>
>>> You say "You will see DNSSServer instead of DNSServer inside BIND".
>>>
>>> I just took a quick look at BIND in Finder, and it is a 4k document
>>> that
>>> does not open. If I come back as root, how would I be able to get
>>> into
>>> it
>>> and change that misspelling? Do I both have to become root and then
>>> get into
>>> the document via Terminal or something?
>>> Allan Atherton
>>>
>>>
>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November
>>> 26
>>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November
>> 26
>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>>
>>
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>
>
>
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
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