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Re: [1.7] Editing in /etc
> I've encountered an odd issue where I can't seem to edit anything in
> /etc. ?I've executed 'mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd' which worked fine. ?I
> then attempted 'vim /etc/passwd', and vim seems to hang with the file
> name in quotes in the bottom left corner.
Looks like it's related to some issue reading stdin... I executed vim
in debug mode ('vim -D passwd') and got the following:
Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: Finished.
What's really odd is that this only occurs in /etc.
Hope this helps...
Chris
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Chris Sutcliffe
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