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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:51:59 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        David L <dlodeiro@inspired.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cant write to /etc
Message-ID:  <20030901065159.GA38899@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <200309011436.39077.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au>
References:  <200309011436.39077.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au>

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On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:36:39PM +1000, David L wrote:
> I have just been tring to use sms_client and it gives me an error that it cant 
> write to /etc.
>  When I try to # touch /etc/smslock
> 
> it gives me 
> 
> # touch: /etc/smslock: Read-only file system

There's your error. Your need to:

    # mount -w /

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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