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Re: Can't write .profile from vi


"cat /etc/passwd" and look at your numeric user and group ids. Now do a "ls -aln .profile". I'm betting (given you're on a domain) that the id is not gonna match up with what NT thinks it should be -- and you should do a "mkpasswd -d ..." rather than -l (same using mkgroup).

Either that or do a "w!" (or chmod 777) on .profile...

luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au wrote:

My ~/.profile file is the only one I've found with this problem.
As far a I can see, I have write permission, I am me, but I'm not
allowed to write the file from vi! I have to write it into another
file in my home directory and then cp that on top of .profile!

$ vi ~/.profile

-rwxr-xr-x 1 luke Domain U 4327 Aug 30 10:40 /home/luke/.profile
Hit ENTER or type command to continue
uid=11021(luke) gid=10513(Domain Users) groups=10513(Domain Users)
"~/.profile"
"~/.profile" E212: Can't open file for writing
Hit ENTER or type command to continue

I'm using /usr/bin/vi from the Cygwin installation.

luke


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