[NTLUG:Discuss] root can not edit hosts.deny file

[Steve Baker]

m m wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> there is a weird (at least to me) thing happen on my RH 6.2 box.
> 
> I tried to edit the hosts.deny, and get not permission error.
> check it with ls -l
> 
> -rw-r--r-- root root .... hosts.deny
> 
> of course I login as root.
> 
> I can't mv this file to other name either.

Could it be that this is on a disk partition that's mounted read-only?

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