On 14/12/12 01:04, Neil Perry wrote:
On 13 December 2012 13:52, Robbie Smith <zoqae...@gmail.com> wrote:
vipw and vigr don't seem to do anything for me. It doesn't matter what
changes I make, they both report that nothing was changed.
# vipw
(Makes changes in $EDITOR, writes and quits)
vipw: no changes made
vipw: /etc/passwd unchanged
?
I believe vipw and vigr will launch the file in using $EDITOR. Once you
have made changes it will sanity check in a sandbox style before saving to
the 'production' file.
Correct me if I'm wrong please.
Neil
That's what it's supposed to do, according to all the documentation that
I can find. But (for me at least), it opens a temporary file in $EDITOR
named vi(pw|gr).XXXXXX, where XXXXXX is a random string. Upon editing
the file and exiting the editor, instead of comparing and merging the
changes to the production file, it does nothing. I've even made a copy
of the production file myself (as an extra precaution), and deleted
every line in the tmp file, and it still does nothing.
