Editing /etc/profile ?

[tony1234]

I wanted to change bash history # lines kept and tried to edit this file, but says permission denied.
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842 May 24 2004 /etc/profile
I am logged in as root (from su), but says permission denied. I have tried editing other root only files (with same permissions), and works ok?
Anyone know why root can't edit this file and some way around it?

 

[tony1234]

Never mind, LES made that file immutable, so I changed it back temporarily as I made my changes.

 

[nobaloney]

What OS distribution are you using?

I have no problems editing /etc/profile while logged in as root.

Jeff

 

[tony1234]

CentOS. But it wasn't that, when I installed LES from rfxnetworks, it changed the attributes to immutable, and I hadn't noticed. So I chattr'd it back temporarily to change it. So all is good now. Thanks for the response.