were you root or superuser at the time?? if not, you may not have had write access.
rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Scottaline Sent: Sunday, 9 December 2001 10:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Editors won't save file, why not? On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 15:27:47 -0800 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > I am trying to edit my lilo.conf file in order to tell the system that I have a second cdrom drive that I want detected as a scsi dev. > Each time I go to save the changes to the file in the editor it says 'cannot save file, discard?' > Whay can't I save the file changes in the editor? > I am using LM 8.1. > Thank you. > Mick ========================= You are doing this as root, right?? Mike -- "We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities." -- Robin Williams, _Good Morning Vietnam_ _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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