From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 13: 1:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854844655 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:00:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p77.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.77]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA03404; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 16:00:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389C8F6A.907D53D9@ds.net> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 16:00:26 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: midnight commander silliness References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I'm sure this is a trivial question, but i get frustrated when there > seems to be no reason for a problem. I finally removed winblows from > my system entirely, and reinstalled. Problem is, midnight commander > won't let me view files anymore unless i am root. When i hit F3 for > view, it says 'can't create temporary command file'. I belong in > groups wheel, network, operator, and my own group. I haven't rebooted > since changin the groups, but i don't know if that would make a > difference. Is there a file permission i missed somewhere? You don't have to reboot after changing the group file - you do however have to logout/login, although I don't think that's the cause of your problem. What are the permissions on /tmp? Can you, as a normal user, create a file there? They should be 1777. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message