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    Just a PSA (lemmy.zip)
    submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Doing sudo nano will not load your user configuration, sudoedit will. I had plenty of problems with this, but I assume you don't have any custom configuration.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    One reason why sometime I don't do sudoedit is that I make a lot of changes to the config/restart service/see it works/edit etc.. sudoedit only write to the file when exiting, so that flow won't work...

    for example when having adding a new host on nginx and some configuration and see if everything work (sudo vim/systemc nginx restart/curl https:// domain loop)

    but yeah in general i'll just use sudoedit (which alias to se for me) for my root editing

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I just have a root custom config too. 🤷‍♂️ This even allows me to easily use different configs for root than for the user.

    Made with 'sudo nano', fyi. 😂