1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I'm new at this whole Unix thing, but definately learning (lots of fun)... and I was wondering - how do you make a file read-only with vi? I don't mean how do you load up vi in read-only mode, but how do you save a file (or flag a file, or whatever) in vi to read-only? How do you make it... (2 Replies)

2. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, May be this is a very simple question... $ b=8 $ readonly b $ echo $b 8 $ b=90 -bash: b: readonly variable $ unset b -bash: unset: b: cannot unset: readonly variable I m not able to change the readonly mode of variable b Please help me out.. Thanks Nidhi (2 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

After I issused $readonly THIN. How to change back the varaibale from read only to writeable? (1 Reply)

4. Cybersecurity

Under oracle user file abc.txt was created. Oracle user belong to dba group on UNIX Server. However other non Oracle users which belongs to some other network groups need read only access to this file. Every time when I login as other then oracle user and try to view this file it saying that I... (2 Replies)

5. Debian

I would want one of my partition to be mounted read only always... How to do that ? 1. /etc/fstab I know that, in options we can give ro -- so when the machine boots up or 'mount -a' it will be mounted read only. But i dont want that to be mounted when machine boots up. We will mount that... (3 Replies)

6. Linux

I see this when tried to create a dir using root fstab entries are pretty normal tried to remount with rw but it is still the same block device /dev/sda2 is write-protected ---------- Post updated at 04:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:51 PM ---------- fstab entry ... (4 Replies)

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I'm confused using hdparm -r1 /dev/sda9 although it shows readonly set to 1 (on) - I can touch a file and edit and save it. why? (7 Replies)

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am new to shell programming. I just wanted to know if I set a variable to readonly. How do I revert it back to normal. name="some_name" readonly name Now I want to make name variable back to it normal, on which I can perform write operation too. Thanks (3 Replies)

9. Red Hat

Hi Experts I am facing a problem wherein Root Access not working as FileSystem in ReadOnly Mode. Due to a Disk failure, my Filesystem went into Read-Only mode: report@xx> grep root /proc/mounts /dev/root / ext3 ro,data=ordered 0 0 Now, I am not able to login using root user on the... (5 Replies)