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I've just installed Debian dual booting with WinXP but when I was to edit menu.lst I realized that I could not do chmod as root! How is this possible?Any ...
- 07-18-2007 #1Just Joined!
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root cannt chmod!
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I've just installed Debian dual booting with WinXP but when I was to edit menu.lst I realized that I could not do chmod as root! How is this possible?Any help is welcome.
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Hi and Welcome !
it nort recommended to change permission of any folder/file outside /home folder. which folder/file's permission are you trying to change? could explain a bit more?It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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you don't really need to change permissions to edit the file, just use
kate is the name of text editor used by me, you can replace it with some your...Code:sudo kate menu.lst
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its not recommended to use sudo for launching GUI applications with root privileges. one should use 'kdesu' in KDE and 'gksu' in GNOME.
Originally Posted by Runn3r.cze
Code:gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
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many thanks, gedit worked fine!
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