editing a file in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n

editing a file in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n

[Linux for blind general discussion]

Mark Peveto here,
When trying to edit a file called characters in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18m, I try to save the file, and it says error saving file, bad file
descriptor.  I'm usign sudo with my nano command, which usually works.
what's the problem here?


Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!

Re: editing a file in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n

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Well Mark, while I really don't know why that is not working for you, I can say, 
I usually run
nano -tzk
so it doesn't prompt. Also, what happens if you became root as
su -m
Chime

Re: editing a file in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n

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Mark Peveto here,
What I ended up having to do is disable the backup file option in the nanorc file.  wasn't my favorite choice, but it did solve the problem!



Mark Peveto
Registered Linux user number 600552
Everything happens after coffee!

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Well Mark, while I really don't know why that is not working for you, I can
> say, I usually run
> nano -tzk
> so it doesn't prompt. Also, what happens if you became root as
> su -m
> Chime
>
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Re: editing a file in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18n

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Willem here.
Those are kind of special files.
Copy the file to somewhare, edit it and then use cat to overwrite 
/sys/accessibility/speakup/characters i.e. cat /etc/my_changes > 
/sys/accessibility/speakup/characters
/sys/accessibility/speakup/characters is not a real file. you will have to 
do the cat every time you want the changes effected.
What I mean that changes to most of the /sys/accessibility/speakup files 
are not permanent and get set to its default on a reboot.
Regards, Willem


On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Mark Peveto here,
> When trying to edit a file called characters in /sys/accessibility/speakup/i18m, I try to save the file, and it says error saving file, bad file
> descriptor.  I'm usign sudo with my nano command, which usually works.
> what's the problem here?
>
>
> Mark Peveto
> Registered Linux user number 600552
> Everything happens after coffee!
>
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> Blinux-list@redhat.com
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