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zagabar

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Registered: 2006-08-05

Posts: 33

Re: permission denied!

that is kinda fun.

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,694

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Re: permission denied!

Actually I figured out the problem may be something like that.   
That's the reason my last post was:

What do you mean by "open it normally". If you were able to open the file with nano and edit it it means: 1. You do have "root powers" and they work as expected 2. The partition is not READ Only.

Perhaps we are not understanding what you are doing ... can you give us a "step by step" sort of guide to try to retrace your steps and understand the problem?

BTW, /etc/rc.conf is not editable by regular users only by root.

It's one of those things we do when we are typing "on automatic" mode but not thiking ...