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Re: [1.7] Editing in /etc


>> Perhaps I spoke to soon... ?I'm still having the issue, this time with
>> a domain based user.
>
> I can't reproduce that, neither from a console window, nor from a mintty
> window.

I've tried from both a console window and mintty and experience the
same behaviour.

>> I executed 'mkpasswd -l -c > /etc/passwd' which again acted as
>> expected, and the /etc/passwd file was created. ?I went to edit the
>> file with 'vim -D /etc/passwd' to change the users' default group and
>> vim again displayed the message about an error opening input.
>
> So this does not only occur in /etc? ?What happens if you start vim
> without the -D flag?

This only occurs for any file in /etc.  For simplicity, I tried:

$ cd /etc
$ echo "Some text" > test.txt
$ cat test.txt
Some text
$ vim text.txt

and all I get is a screen with nothing but "test.txt" in the lower
left hand corner.

>> Looking in /dev I have:
>
> The content of /dev shouldn't matter, in theory.
>
>> $ ls -ltr /proc/self/fd/0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 csutclif Users 0 Nov 30 ?2006 /proc/self/fd/0 -> /dev/tty0
>>
>> however, there is no /dev/tty0. ?Should there be? ?If so, how do I create it?
>
> http://cygwin.com/1.7/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html#pathnames-posixdevices

Ah, so the permissions on tty0 look correct:

$ ls -l /dev/tty0
crw-rw-rw- 1 csutclif Users 136, 0 Nov 30  2006 /dev/tty0

>> I'm at a loss here, could anybody hazard an idea as to what could be
>> happening, or how I could further debug the issue?
>
> Maybe something in /etc is making problems but I can't imagine what that
> is. ?This is a typical case where you just have to debug this. ?Strace
> might reveal a problem here. ?Or maybe it's a BLODA problem.

How do I capture the strace output to a file?  I tried 'strace vim
/etc/passwd > strace.out' but vim complained about stdout being
redirected.

Thanx!

Chris

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Chris Sutcliffe
http://emergedesktop.org

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