ten buck fedora 2775
In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.misc, in article
Wow, is this where the 'editor war' is? Hey, Chris, it's better thanbin-ed. ;-)
One quite a few of whose sysadmin experiences go back to the days when that was the...
The buttumption is that you know exactly what the file contents are, and given that this is root's entry inetc-pbuttwd, that is pretty much a given. But this isn't always the case of what we are editing and why.
Kids, DO try this at home, and then remove the extra entry immediately afterwards. DO NOT try this on systems you don't own and control, or on systems with a network connection to the big bad world.
I think he's buttuming you have the system in single user - true, all you really need issbin-telinit, or even to just ^D to get it to go multi-user again. Let's remember that on any non-brain-dead configured *nix system, only root should be able to do anything toetc-pbuttwd. If you need to remove roots pbuttword, the likelihood is that you aren't root at the moment, and you've had to resort to physical measures to get around that little problem. Oh, and watch the fun if this is a journaled file system and you're a little quick on restarting things..
Old guy
General Schvantzkoph The previously mentioned lack of any software except what's on the hard drive is most of the reason. I'm also in no financial condition to get a Net hook up for this beast...
Linux groups from Newsgroups