It seems that now whenever I type in 'visudo' I get the 'swap file' error. 
Should I erase the /etc/sudoers file (I already tried erasing  the .tmp file 
but it persists and when I type in visudo I get the /etc/sudoers.tmp even 
though I deleted it. 
Here is what I am thinking: 
1- copy the contents of sudoers
2- rm  /etc/sudoers*
3- visudo 
4- put the contents of what I have copied into the new file.

Does this sound about right?
-- 
<:-)~MIKE~(-:>

E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name "/etc/.sudoers.tmp.swp"
          owned by: root   dated: Tue Dec  9 10:06:49 2003
         file name: /etc/sudoers.tmp
          modified: YES
         user name: root   host name: bmike1
        process ID: 770
While opening file "/etc/sudoers.tmp"
             dated: Tue Dec  9 10:06:16 2003

(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
    If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
    different instances of the same file when making changes.
    Quit, or continue with caution.

(2) An edit session for this file crashed.
    If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r /etc/sudoers.tmp"
    to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
    If you did this already, delete the swap file "/etc/.sudoers.tmp.swp"
    to avoid this message.

Swap file "/etc/.sudoers.tmp.swp" already exists!
[O]pen Read-Only, (E)dit anyway, (R)ecover, (Q)uit, (D)elete it:
 
On Monday 08 December 2003 09:22 pm, George Toft said:
~ Michael Havens wrote:
~ >
~ > So do you think I should redo it with visudo?
~ > It seems to be working fine.
~ >
~
~ Yes.
~
~ visudo
~ :wq
~
~ If you get the prompt back, you are good to go.  If not, it will tell
~ you.






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