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How do I edit the Hosts file on Ubuntu 10.10?
I cannot edit the Hosts file on my Ubuntu 10.10 install. I have tried using the following commands:
sudo gedit \etc\hosts
sudo nano \etc\hosts
sudo vi \etc\hosts
None have worked. Althought the Vi editor MAY work, I am having difficulty doing so. What would I need to do to get Gedit to work on the Hosts file?
sudo gedit \etc\hosts
sudo nano \etc\hosts
sudo vi \etc\hosts
None have worked. Althought the Vi editor MAY work, I am having difficulty doing so. What would I need to do to get Gedit to work on the Hosts file?
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Link should be:
https://help.ubuntu.com/co
https://help.ubuntu.com/co
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LOL, yikes I knew I would get the slashes wrong. I posted this question in a hurry before a meeting. I had been running the commands with the correct slashes. And gedit is installed and running fine. The problem I had was that no matter what I've tried I am not able to save my changes. I just tried using gksudo and sudo and neither worked. It prompts for the root password and then runs fine. When I bring up gedit the save options are all greyed out. Leading me to think something is amiss with the permissions. Although I just tried Nano again and it seems to be working. Any idea WTF might have caused this to prevent gedit from working? Nano is fine but gedit is simpler.
Thanks for all the quick responses!
Thanks for all the quick responses!
Maybe you forgot sudo sometimes?
And sudo does not prompt for root's password, it prompts for your (the user's) password!
wmp
And sudo does not prompt for root's password, it prompts for your (the user's) password!
wmp
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I did try what you mentioned about the backup file. It was unchecked. I checked it, closed gedit, and re-opened it to verify that it stuck. Then I ran the gksudo command to edit the file. No joy :(. Oh well. I tried nedit as an alternative since you mentioned that gedit sometimes has issues. Worked a treat! Thanks for everyones help!
Apart from the slashes which you put wrongly and which have already been addressed, if you really want to use Gedit, which is a graphical Gnome application, you should launch it via the graphical sudo command 'gksudo', i.e.:
# gksudo gedit /etc/hosts
See this as reference: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical sudo
'nano' doesn't require any additional thought, and also is much simpler to use than vi, so I'd always recommend to use 'nano'.