Files appearing at boot in xinetd.d and rc.d

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:52 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 14:10 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>thanx, indeed, gedit does that..that's rediculous..I haveta remove the
> >>backed up file each time I make a change with gedit...as I said,
> >>rediculous..cheers, though, as that removes 1 thought to why snort is
> >>now not even trying to initialize at boot..cheers.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >If you've been editing rc.local with gedit, you may find that rc.local
> >is no longer an executable file, and that might account for it not
> >running.
> >
> ># chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> >
> >Paul.
> >  
> >
> Hi All,
> 
> that's very interesting and very annoying too.  What should I edit with 
> then, so I don't have backup files created when not needed and don't 
> need to chmod the file, again..?..rediculous..cheers, anyway, Paul.

I just use vi. No doubt others use emacs. It's very useful to be able to
use terminal-based editors because (a) they are portable and you can
reasonably expect to find them on an Unix-type system you use, (b) they
work over slow dial-up links, and (c) they work in a single-user or
rescue type environment when there may be no GUI-based editor available.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>