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: Of Mark Evans
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: Exactly what permissions are these files?
: Off hand I don't recall any unix version where root can write
: to a file with no write permission at all.
I'm afraid that's not correct. I edit read-only files (-r--r--r--) all
of the time and save them. Vi complains if you don't use the ! to
override the operation but will dutifully write to it when issued a
:w!.
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