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Topic: changing /etc/hosts.allow, write-only filesystem

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marlas

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Posted: Dec. 30 2005,12:24

hi there,

i've made a frugal install to a cf-card on a pc104-system.
it runs pretty good but now i have some problems in customizing it.
i have to make some changes in the config-files located in /etc.
how can i save this when the file-system is ro? mounting /cdrom as rw didn't help.

thanks for help
marla

mikshaw

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Joined: July 2004

Posted: Dec. 30 2005,14:57

The /etc directory is not read-only in frugal. Many of the files in /etc are symlinks to /KNOPPIX/etc, which is read-only. If the file you are trying to edit is a symlink, replace the symlink with a copy of the original file from /KNOPPIX/etc

To check if a file is a symlink, use the command

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file /etc/hosts.allow

To see what file a link points to, use

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ls -l /etc/hosts.allow

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