[ydl-gen] yum install probs again

[Jeff Folk]

I really don't know why you are messing with this yum.conf file in 
/home/butters

The main yum.conf file lives in /etc

Me thinks you aren't exiting vi/vim correctly to get those errors. Or 
maybe you are killing a ssh session before you exit the vi program...

Try this:

<stuff>$ su -

enter your root password when asked and the prompt changes to this:

<stuff>#

notice the '#' instead of the '$'? That means you are -root- Then do 
this:

<stuff># pico /etc/yum.conf

And edit that file to enter your mirrors. Control-O writes the file 
out, control-X exits pico cleanly.

Hope that helps;
Jeff

On Sep 10, 2005, at 1:29 AM, Kevin McMahon wrote:

> anytime that i try and edit the yum.conf file i get this message
>
> E325: ATTENTION
> Found a swap file by the name ".yum.conf.swp"
>          owned by: root   dated: Tue Sep  6 09:11:56 2005
>         file name: /home/butters/yum.conf
>          modified: YES
>         user name: root   host name: 
> 66-188-197-164.dhcp.roch.mn.charter.com
>        process ID: 8168
> While opening file "yum.conf"
>
> (1) Another program may be editing the same file.
>    If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
>    different instances of the same file when making changes.
>    Quit, or continue with caution.
>
> (2) An edit session for this file crashed.
>    If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r yum.conf"
>    to recover the changes (see ":help recovery").
>    If you did this already, delete the swap file ".yum.conf.swp"
>    to avoid this message.
>
> "yum.conf" [New File]
> Hit ENTER or type command to continue
> I have no idea where the swp file is even after a 'whereis command, 
> what is happening here?
> ydl 4.0 and a pismo g3 500,
> I need to get rid of that file or files it seems but have no clue, I 
> did everything that the message said but to know avail
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