I guess I must have an evil vi on all of my machines, because I've been doing this for some time (using ":w!" to override read-only permission when I own the file).
-Steve -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Simpson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: touch modifies read-only files | try, e.g. vi a read-only file by the user, then try to save it, it | will say it's read only, then save it with :w! it will happily override | it. Not so. Unless your vi (vim probably) is doing evil things like unlinking the old file and making a new one, the above does not work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
