I don't understand the use case of this, why would you want to 'save' and that the changes aren't written to the disk? whouldn't that be unusefull?
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: augeas > Version: 0.7.0-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Augtool insists on writing to the filesystem, even if it does not > need to make any changes. For instance, the following fails because > /etc is mounted read-only, and hence /etc/ssh/sshd_config.augnew > cannot be written (strace attached): > > augtool> print /files/etc/ssh/sshd_config/PermitRootLogin > /files/etc/ssh/sshd_config/PermitRootLogin = "without-password" > augtool> set /files/etc/ssh/sshd_config/PermitRootLogin without-password > augtool> print /files/etc/ssh/sshd_config/PermitRootLogin > /files/etc/ssh/sshd_config/PermitRootLogin = "without-password" > augtool> save > Saving failed > > Please use a temporary directory for writing temporary files. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.35-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > > -- > .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: > : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info > `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems -- Nicolas Valcárcel Security Engineer Custom Engineering Solutions Group Canonical OEM Services Mobile: +511 994 293 200 Key fingerprint = 5C4D 0C85 D9C0 98FE 11F9 DD12 524E C3CD EF58 4970 gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 654597FE
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