From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqC6w-0003uj-KH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:46:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j66FiYhb027263; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:44:34 GMT Received: from depardo.homelinux.net (85-218-26-201.dclient.lsne.ch [85.218.26.201]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j66FcqSV010697 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:38:52 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by depardo.homelinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C72C154F9; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:39:46 +0200 (CEST) From: gentoo@depardo.ch To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ? Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:39:45 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <42CBE237.7050508@planet.nl> <200507061620.47943.gentoo@depardo.ch> <42CBF70B.4010703@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <42CBF70B.4010703@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507061739.45373.gentoo@depardo.ch> X-Archives-Salt: ca746a1e-c679-4a3b-8223-ed7b311ccc65 X-Archives-Hash: bd5c0571cb9c9269f9f816a679df5e9d On Wednesday 06 July 2005 17.21, Holly Bostick wrote: > > To solve your problem, I would just do: > > chgrp -R portage /etc/portage > > chmod -R g+w /etc/portage > > Well, it didn't work (this to all the respondents). Are you in the portage group? > sudo echo 'media-video/xine-ui ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords no need to sudo the echo if you're in the right group. -- mat -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list