editing read-only files in single user mode

cmiwebmaster · 04-14-2003, 06:46 PM

How do you make a file read/write in single user mode? I'm logged in as su and I'm trying to comment out a line in rc.config using vi and it keeps telling me rc.config is read only.

help!

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zovres · 04-14-2003, 06:53 PM

under root
do a chmod to change the permission on the file
chmod a+w (a[all users] +[are added] w[the permission to write])

or you can chown user_name:user_name the file to user_name so that the file will belong to user_name and user_name will be able to write in it

zovres · 04-14-2003, 06:54 PM

I strongly suggest a
man chmod
and a
man chown =)

cmiwebmaster · 04-14-2003, 07:15 PM

I tried chmod a+w rc.config and the screen says "Changing permissions of 'rc.config': read-only file system

It still wont write to the file.

HELP!