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
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