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Re: resolved -- Re: my .muttrc is locked (i.e., read-only)



* p (pplaw@pcisys.net) [021220 11:19]:
> debs,
> 
> firstly, thanks to all that replied.  
> i got good info.  ("world writeable, 
> vi.recover"..."glad to meet-'cha'.") 

> and thirdly, during my morning 75-mile 
> commute to denver, the thought popped 
> into my head that i could remove the 
> ~/vi.recover files, try to move the 
> contents of .muttrc to a new filename, 
> delete .muttrc, and then copy the con-
> tents of that new file back into a 
> _new_ .muttrc.
> 
> in other words: 
> 
> 1)  rm /var/tmp/vi.recover/*

That should be all you need to do.  You can skip steps 2-4.

> 2)  cat .muttrc > new_muttrc_for_testing_1a
> 
> 3)  rm .muttrc
> 
> 4)  cat new_muttrc_for_testing_1a > .muttrc
> 
> (5)) (report back to list.)

(5) is probably still a good idea, though...


good times,
Vineet
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