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On Thursday 10 May 2007 18:11, christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Posted by "Berry Christopher" <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Thanks friends for the suggestion of sudo which worked fine BUT I now need > to edit the file snapscan.conf to put in esfw41.bin - when I try I get -- > Warning: unknown mime-type for "etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf" -- using > "application/*" Error: no write permission for file > "etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf" > I've tried with gedit but but I still get told that I have no write > permission!!! Any suggestions? > Cheers in advance, > Christopher Berry. > -- Use sudo again Christopher. sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf Basically, most files other than those in your /home directory are owned by "root". So, you need to have root priveliges to edit them - thats what sudo does, it gives your username temporary root priveliges. Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html