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Re: [LUG] Thanks but there's more!!!!

 

On Thursday 10 May 2007 18:11, christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Posted by "Berry Christopher" <christopher.berry1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Thanks  friends for the suggestion of sudo which worked fine BUT I now need
> to edit the file snapscan.conf to put in esfw41.bin - when I try I get --
> Warning: unknown mime-type for "etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf" -- using
> "application/*" Error: no write permission for file
> "etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf"
> I've tried with gedit but but I still get told that I have no write
> permission!!! Any suggestions?
> Cheers in advance,
> Christopher Berry.
> --

Use sudo again Christopher.
sudo gedit /etc/sane.d/snapscan.conf

Basically, most files other than those in your /home directory are owned 
by "root". So, you need to have root priveliges to edit them - thats what 
sudo does, it gives your username temporary root priveliges.

Mark

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