peculiar problem: can't change inetd.conf file
 

Hi, i'm using slackware 10.2, this is kind of peculiar to me, the problem is i'm not able to edit the /etc/inetd.conf file even as root, i've checked the permission it has rw access to root, but the vi editor says the file is readonly.
what could be the problem? i just wanted to uncomment the telnet part of the file.

In the session you're in ... what's the output of
id
and
ls -l /etc/inetd.conf


Cheers,
Tink

thanx for the reply, here's the output of id:

uid=400(sharath) gid=500(sharathg) groups=500(sharathg),11(floppy),17(audio),18(video),19(cdrom)


and ls -l /etc/inetd.conf

-rw------- 1 root root 4606 2006-08-07 00:44 /etc/inetd.conf

If it's an ext2/ext3 file system, have you tried this:

That quite clearly states that you're NOT root? Odd enough
that you don't get "permission denied", though.


Cheers,
Tink

thanx, this helped!