On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:52 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote: > > > > > >>thanx, indeed, gedit does that..that's rediculous..I haveta remove the > >>backed up file each time I make a change with gedit...as I said, > >>rediculous..cheers, though, as that removes 1 thought to why snort is > >>now not even trying to initialize at boot..cheers. > >> > >> > > > >If you've been editing rc.local with gedit, you may find that rc.local > >is no longer an executable file, and that might account for it not > >running. > > > ># chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > > >Paul. > > > > > Hi All, > > that's very interesting and very annoying too. What should I edit with > then, so I don't have backup files created when not needed and don't > need to chmod the file, again..?..rediculous..cheers, anyway, Paul. I just use vi. No doubt others use emacs. It's very useful to be able to use terminal-based editors because (a) they are portable and you can reasonably expect to find them on an Unix-type system you use, (b) they work over slow dial-up links, and (c) they work in a single-user or rescue type environment when there may be no GUI-based editor available. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
