From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Piet van Oostrum Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing a file as root Date: 17 Dec 2003 16:51:36 +0100 Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071677035 30862 80.91.224.253 (17 Dec 2003 16:03:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 17 17:03:49 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWe9M-0002uy-00 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:03:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWf5M-0006U8-KM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:03:44 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news2.telebyte.nl!humbolt.nl.linux.org!news.nl.linux.org!phil.uu.nl!cs.uu.nl!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: modena.cs.uu.nl Original-X-Trace: june.cs.uu.nl 1071676293 2894 131.211.80.35 (17 Dec 2003 15:51:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@cs.uu.nl Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:51:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119432 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15371 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15371 >>>>> sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr ( Sébastien Kirche) (SK) wrote: SK> On my system (Mac OSX 10.2.8), emacs fails or freezes after entering the SK> superuser password. SK> "top" shows that no cpu is used by emacs, and i can get the control back SK> with C-g I use the following entry in tramp-default-method-alist: ("\\`nono\\'" ".*" "sudo") (nono is the name of my computer), and then I enter /nono:/filename This works. -- Piet van Oostrum URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP] Private email: P.van.Oostrum@hccnet.nl