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I am new to Unix. I installed Solaris8 on my computer. I want to setup my computer to connect to the network. when i try to edit /etc/hosts, /etc/hostname.elxl0 file using Vi editor it looks like read only. I try to change permission. But it is not allowing me to do so. What could be the problem.
Thats right, the hosts file is read only, however that can be overwritten by using the following sequence to save the read only file esc :wq!
If you try the old Shift-ZZ trick, it will tell you that it is read only. You do have to be root though to write over a protected file with the :wq! sequence
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