[aclug-L] Re: lilo.conf

["Violette, James" <JViolette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you checked the permissions on the /etc directory?  There have been
times when a file of mine had the correct permissions, but the directory
tree above the file did not.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rashmi Javeri [mailto:rashmi_j@xxxxxxxxxxx]
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Subject: [aclug-L] Re: lilo.conf



I have /etc/lilo.conf is owned by root root, but i am not able to write to
file as root,it has read write permissions to it.




--- Maverick Ieong <mluvw47@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>Hi, Rashmi, 
>
>  make sure the permission on Lilo.conf is:
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root       /etc/lilo.conf
>and you can only change it as long as you are root.
>And If you really did change something, make sure you
>re-run /sbin/lilo again. Hope it helps.
>
>Regards,
>Mav              
>                                  
>
>--- Rashmi Javeri <rashmi_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi
>>    I have some vague problem with lilo, i have 700
>> perms for lilo.conf, but when i try to change the
>> lilo.conf it says readonly, i meant why it was
>> saying that when i was doing as root.
>> 
>> can somebody help me please
>> 
>> -regards
>> rashmi
>> 
>>
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