On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:39, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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?

> 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
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I would choose (R) to recover a previous edit if that is desired or if
not, (D) to delete /etc/sudoers.tmp.swp and then you are editing without
a problem.

Craig