Problem with YUM???

[Bill Tetens]

jvian10 at charter.net wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 08:26, Bill Tetens wrote:
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>>webid at cfl.rr.com wrote:
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>>>On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 23:24, Bill Tetens wrote:
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>>>>I was given a site for a updated yum.conf file but am having a problem. 
>>>>I can get the file into a VIM file named /etc/yum.conf but cannot save 
>>>>the file.  Not sure what is wrong but would welcome any suggestions.  I 
>>>>first perserved the yum.conf file by using the CD /etc command under 
>>>>root.  That file does not exist but cannot write the file in the VIM 
>>>>program in place of it even though VIM shows that the file is named 
>>>>yum.conf.  It seems some type of restriction is on that file name or 
>>>>something.  Hope I have explained enough that you understand my problem.
>>>>
>>>>Help will be greatly appreciated.
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>>>/etc/yum.conf has 655 permissions which means it is read/writable by
>>>root and read only by others only.  
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>>>I am assuming you meant you did a cp /etc/yum.conf someotherfilename to
>>>save a copy of the that file not CD.  cd is for changing your current
>>>directory.
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>>>To edit the file you will need to have root permissions or be logged in
>>>as root.  To do that issue the following command:
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>>>su -
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>>>It will prompt you for roots password and change the prompt to #.
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>>>Then use vi to edit /etc/yum.conf and save your changes.
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>>Got up this morning and started my first cup of coffee and suddenly it 
>>dawned on my that I needed to be in root.  When I got to the computer 
>>there was your help and it told me the same thing.  Anyway I changed the 
>>  yum.conf file and it works just fine now.
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>>I tried the cp command and it did not work.  Where can I find a listing 
>>of all the commands.  I have several of them but there has to be a list 
>>somewhere.
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>>Thanks again for the help.
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>One of the best references I know of that has the majority of the
>commands (as well as a lot of other information) is "Linux in a
>Nutshell" by O'reilly.  A very good reference for anyone using any
>flavor of Linux.
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Got Linux in a Nutshell on the way.  Guess I did sonething right other 
than get into Linux.  

Thanks to everyone for the help...

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