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On Sunday 12 September 2004 8:11 pm, jondavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Posted by "Jon Davey" <jondavey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi, I`ve managed to get Debian Woody working but having run "wvdialconfig" as root creating an /etc/wvdial.conf file I am unable to edit this file to include my isp`s modem bank phone number, my user name and my login password. I`ve tried editing the file in Emacs, in a superuser mode file organiser window (forget what it`s called) and opening the file in a terminal where i`m told the file does`nt exist.
Use su in the terminal to get temporary root permission. Check the file using: ls -l /etc/wvdial.conf Then you have some options, you can: 1. change the permissions on the file, edit it and then change them back 2. Learn Vi and edit the file in Vi (help on DCLUG:documentation) whilst still as root 3. load the file into Emacs from the command line, still as root. I don't use Emacs, I can't tell you the syntax but emacs /etc/wvdial.conf is a start.
The answers probably simple....
This is a system file, it needs protection from users. If this is the only connection for this system, you need to be root, then edit and save the file. Something went wrong with your superuser method. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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