Paul, I've made the changes but on my N800 there isn't visudo in /sbin. That was one of the first places I checked. Did you install it manually? If so, where did you get it (or did you compile it manually?)? James, thanks for the suggestion! Thanks, Nick. -----Original Message----- From: maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of Paul Klapperich Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 9:44 PM Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org Subject: Re: Visudo Help On 8/16/07, James Sparenberg <james at linuxrebel.org> wrote: > > On this one visudo is not on the box but the real solution is.... don't chmod > the file. VI it as root, then instead of doing wq to quit (write quit) do > wq! (w q then exclamation point or more commonly known as bang) this will > override the read only aspect and commit your changes without running the > risk of forgeting to chmod > > James > which is what I was driving at, but that won't protect against errors as visudo will also. Visudo is in /sbin on the device. It works fine. --Paul _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users at maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
