From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 13:37:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sblake.comcen.com.au (sblake.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.144]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D7AF465A for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:37:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aunty@localhost) by sblake.comcen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA84746; Sun, 6 Feb 2000 08:39:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from aunty) Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 08:39:04 +1100 From: aunty To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: "James A. Mutter" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: midnight commander silliness Message-ID: <20000206083904.E77294@comcen.com.au> References: <389C8F6A.907D53D9@ds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 09:23:21PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > The permissions are just like you said. I am going to install the > newest version, and see what happens. Whoa, before you do that, check the permissions on ALL of your temp directories... /tmp /var/tmp /usr/tmp ... especially if you've moved them, for example to put them under /usr with a symlink at some stage. I get bitten with this one on every installation. IIRC it's the permissions on /usr/tmp that go wrong. It's always Midnight Commander that screams to remind me. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message