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 
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