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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:53:45 -0500
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Subject: Re: [1.7] Editing in /etc
From: Chris Sutcliffe <ir0nh34d AT gmail DOT com>
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> I've encountered an odd issue where I can't seem to edit anything in
> /etc. =A0I've executed 'mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd' which worked fine. =A0I
> then attempted 'vim /etc/passwd', and vim seems to hang with the file
> name in quotes in the bottom left corner.

Looks like it's related to some issue reading stdin... I executed vim
in debug mode ('vim -D passwd') and got the following:

Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: Finished.

What's really odd is that this only occurs in /etc.

Hope this helps...

Chris

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