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Manatus	2012-02-10 , 06:23
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Originally Posted by balisingh

so i does this by bluetoothing hosts file over to my n9. then i gains the devel-su on da terminal. then i moves the hosts file beamed over. mv \home\user\MyDocs\hosts \etc\. this gives me a warning about cant preserve ownership. also i renamed the original file but its not there no more, itsmusta not took.
my slashes maybe backward cuz my bluetooth keyboard is the one for sony playstation and its all jacked up! i think its working.
what text editor should i use on the n9 to add the rm696 line? not vi please.

You can use Nano for that. Just be careful you don't press enter or edit any of the lines that end with dollar sign (eg. ones that are longer than screen width). Nano can be found in Nokia Market as well as under the one of the utility packs that can be found under developer mode in settings of N9.

It is normal to see ownership preservation warnings when copying from FAT-filesystem (normal user storage area on N9) to linux filesystems (such as /etc has). Privileges should be in order automatically even when it complains a bit.

'ls -l /etc/hosts' should show:
'-rw-r--r-- 1 root root' etc.

If not, it can be fixed with
'chmod ugo+r /etc/hosts'
and after that
'chmod u+w /etc/hosts'

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