Thanks for the reply. After sending that e-mail, I kept looking. What I noticed was there are two vi binaries, /bin/vi and /usr/bin/vim. As a regular user, 'vi' is aliased to /usr/bin/vim, which does support the -x flag. As root, it gets /bin/vi - which does not support the -x flag. Note that when one does a /bin/vi -h it is vim and the same version as /usr/bin/vim, but cut down to size. Thanks again. ~smbinyon -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Magklaras Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 2:15 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Vim does not do encryption no more on RHEL5? That's a bit weird. I just checked and vim -x works on my RHEL 5 box. Also vim -h displays the -x option. Are you sure you are not using some other version of vim compiled locally in your system outside the RHEL distro and overriding your path? In my box: # type vim vim is hashed (/usr/bin/vim) # ldd /usr/bin/vim libtermcap.so.2 => /lib64/libtermcap.so.2 (0x00000033cde00000) libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x00000033d0600000) libacl.so.1 => /lib64/libacl.so.1 (0x00000033d4800000) libgpm.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libgpm.so.1 (0x00000033cae00000) libperl.so => /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so (0x00000033cb200000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib64/libresolv.so.2 (0x00000033d1e00000) libutil.so.1 => /lib64/libutil.so.1 (0x00000033d8a00000) libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00000033c9e00000) libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00000033ca200000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00000033ca600000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00000033caa00000) libsepol.so.1 => /lib64/libsepol.so.1 (0x00000033d0200000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00000033c9a00000) libattr.so.1 => /lib64/libattr.so.1 (0x00000033d3e00000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib64/libnsl.so.1 (0x00000033d2200000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00000033dca00000) Libcrypt is at the bottom. Can you check your vim path? GM -- -- George Magklaras Senior Computer Systems Engineer/UNIX Systems Administrator EMBnet Technical Management Board The Biotechnology Centre of Oslo, University of Oslo http://www.biotek.uio.no/ EMBnet Norway: http://www.no.embnet.org/ Binyon Steve Contr 705 CTS/ASRCC wrote: > We are evaluating RHEL 5 and found this: > > Under RHEL 3 and 4, one could do 'vi -x' to have the file password > protected and encrypted. Under RHEL 5, this appears to be no longer > true. So, what is used under RHEL 5 that replaces this functionality? > Btw the man page states that its still valid, but vim -h does not show > the -x flag. > > Thanks in advance. > > ~smbinyon > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
