change VI Editor Setting

[Michael Tully]

Use set -o

To see the current settings:
$ set -o

[Rajeev Shukla]

Hi,
.exrc is the file in each users home directory where you can put in the variable you want to set for vi editor for that user.

[Julian Snype]

I a little confuse about $set -0 and .exrc file.

I tried this command and I'm getting
"not found condition". I cannot find any ref to SET. I have no home directories setup since this is my 1st time boot.

I'm working in single user mode. I was working with $TERM command to get vi to recognize my terminal(thats not working).
whenever I edit nfsconf in vi, i'm still in the [read only mode]

All I want to do is change line 1 line in the nfsconf file - NFS_SERVER=1 to '0'.
I sure could use some help with this.

thanks

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

The default is vi, so to make it simple, seeing you in single-user mode. You must have /usr and /var mounted in order to use vi.

# mount /usr
# mount /var

# vi filename

Make your changes
Save the file using:
:wq!

The file will be saved. The permissions of the file prevent you changing it by default. Using the wq! is writing to the file, exiting and the ! overwrites the read only nature of the file.

[Julian Snype]

Michael,

Excellent! It worked! I have reset NFS_SERVER=0
I was trying the same command and it didn't work.

Simple worked.....

I still have a problem. When I tried to boot normal mode.
I'm still getting a "busy" or "wait" condition the NFS Client Subsystem /NFS server not responding. I went back int single mode and the change that I made had worked.
Are there any other files that you can think of that I should change besides "nfsconf" to get pass this?

Thanks again Michael

[Bharat Katkar]

also change NFS_CLIENT=1 to NFS_CLIENT=0 along with NFS_SERVER=1 to NFS_SERVER=0 in /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf