* Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > after upgrading woody today, my XF86Config-4 file looks like: > > ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION > # > # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make > # changes before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after > # the "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. > > (all of the meat and potatoes of XF86Config-4.conf is snipped) > > ### END DEBCONF SECTION > > > ok, my XF86Config-4 is all wrong now. i need to edit this file. if > we're not supposed to edit between the "BEGIN DEBCONF" and "END > DEBCONF", how the hell am i supposed to get a working XFree86 again? > > is there a tool that allows us to change this file?
Your favourite text editor. What you want is to stop dexconf from fscking it up again, and that's easy: make it chattr +i and read-only. Dima (still failing to righty apprehend the confusion of ideas that led to creation of dexconf)
