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mdrain18
23rd March 2009, 10:40
Right after the installation I rebooted but the text mode set-up utility did not run. Now I did not think it was that big of a deal considering you can disable the firewall on the UI, I also checked the Network/DNS Config and it was all set properly. My real question comes after that, when you have to change /ect/hosts. I know what I have to change it to but I am having trouble changing it. I manually went to the file and tried to change it there but it says I do not have permission to change it because I am not the owner. I also tried running it through terminal as root but still same permission problem. I know I am missing something, I'm just not seeing it. I am also having the same permission problem with disabling the SELinux.

Reading over it again right now, I just wanted to mention that I did use terminal with the vi /etc/hosts but still could not change anything.

Not sure what I did wrong. Very sorry that I had to bother you with the questions, but I just could not find anything online.

Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.

falko
24th March 2009, 18:08
Did you install a desktop on the server?

Anyway, open a terminal, then become root:
su
and then run
vi /etc/hosts

mdrain18
25th March 2009, 02:47
did that and it posted the file as it was but i could not change it...so i then accessed the file directly and tried changing it there but i did not have permission to do so because i did not create it.

falko
25th March 2009, 15:37
What's the output of ls -l /etc/hosts?