On 2005-05-07, +Alan Hicks+ <alan@lizella.netWORK> wrote:
>
> # su -
> # ncftpget ftp://ftp.scarlet.be/pub/slackware/s....29-i486-1.tgz
> # tar -xzf kernel-modules-2.4.29-i486-1.tgz etc/rc.d/rc.modules.new
> # mv etc/rc.d/rc.modules.new /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
> # rm -fr etc/rc.d # NOTE! Do _NOT_ do rm -fr /etc/rc.d Note the
> # leading slash!
> # cd /etc/rc.d/
> # rm *.kwd
> # chmod 755 rc.modules

Better solution
>
>> 1. never use anything but a text editor to edit config file, something like,
>> emacs, jed, joe, pico, xemacs...one of these should be on your machine.
>
> What?! No vi?! Thou shalt bow at the altar of Slack and say three
> Hail Bobs everyday for a week! Thou must also pay $99.95 to atone.

Vi? Vi???. Oh, you mean that ancient program some diehards pretend is a
text editor.

ken