[Novalug] redhat 6, perms on yum.repos.d

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Mon Sep 17 08:04:21 EDT 2012


On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 1:59 PM,  <cruiserad@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>  attepting to manually add a repo doucment to yum.repo.d folder. permissions
> denied, even logged in at root. tried graphically through gimp, and manually
> by calling up the doucment in vii a terminal window and attempting to save
> in the yum.repo.d folder.
>
> any thoughts welcome.

What is the error?

I am pretty sure you weren't using gimp and if you were, that is an
issue-- gimp is for graphic manipulation, not file editing.

Also, these days more repos can be added via an RPM and that is the
preferred method
   sudo yum install name-of-rpm.rpm

How did you log in as root?

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