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 Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I have create a user using the following command useradd -d /home/rozan -s /bin/bash -c "Rozan ahmed" -g dba rozan I would like to give her only the read only access to $BDUMP_HOME/alert.log file The owner of the file is oracle:oinstall Regards Faruque (13 Replies)

3. 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)

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

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

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. AIX

LOGNAME variable is set as READONLY in .profile. I want to make it WRITEABLE so that I can modify the LOGNAME values programatically/throush shell programs. Thanks, Guru (1 Reply)

7. 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)

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)