Editing the /etc/hostconfig file

[Yellowbeard]

I am trying to turn of AUTOMOUNT by booting into single user mode and editing the hostcofig file, but I am getting a message when I try to save the file that says "Cannot open file for writing"

What am I doing wrong??

 

[sonjay]

You can edit it using Terminal. Open terminal, type "cd /etc" (without the quotes), then type "sudo pico hostconfig" (without the quotes).

Make your edits and hit control-x, type "y" when it asks you to save changes, and hit return when it asks for the filename (it'll have "hostconfig" already there as the filename).

 

[Darkshadow]

That's not what's wrong. Pay attention to the prompt you get when you boot into single user mode - it's spits out a blurb about running /sbin/fsck -y to check the disk, then to issue the command /sbin/mount -uw /. The second is the command you need - until you do that, the filesystem is read only, and not even the root user can write to it.

So until you do that, you won't be able to edit any file.

 

[sonjay]

You edit the file using the instructions I gave above without booting into single user mode. Perhaps I should have made that more clear.