Why does Terminal freeze whenever I try to access sudo pico?

When sudo prompts for the admin password it won't echo it as you type it. Just hit return after typing the password.

Is that what makes you think it is freezing?

By the way, I don't think Snow Leopard or Lion even uses the fstab file. But maybe it will if it exists, I don't know.

aarliyu wrote:

I enter "sudo pico /etc/fstab/" into Terminal, and when I type that in, the password line shows but then Terminal completely freezes on me.

The command is wrong; </etc/fstab> is a file, </etc/fstab/> is a directory. Maybe that's the issue on your machine, though it doesn't cause a freeze on mine. (Btw, pico on my machine is actually an alias for nano. I don't recall doing that myself, so it must be an SL default.)

It's not clear from your post if you've created an fstab file or not (I don't think SL has one by default); if you have, that may be the issue. Check with ls. If there is an </etc/fstab> (a file, not a directory), and

$ sudo pico /etc/fstab

still causes a freeze, try to see if you can open it with another text editor, eg, vi.

X423424X wrote:

I don't think Snow Leopard or Lion even uses the fstab file. But maybe it will if it exists, I don't know.

Dunno about Lion, but I believe SL does use it if it exists; but it's not created by default.

Dunno about Lion, but I believe SL does use it if it exists; but it's not created by default.

Ok, nice to know. And it is correct that SL doesn't create it on its own because its not on my system.