From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 15:19: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E91A466B for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:19:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12HCQc-0004Qi-00; Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:07:38 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12HCQc-0003kW-00; Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:07:38 +0000 Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 21:07:38 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: midnight commander silliness Message-ID: <20000205210738.A13648@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: 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? Are the permissions on /tmp or /var/tmp screwed? They should both be 01777. Or, if you have set TMPDIR, check the permissions on that directory. I don't know midnight commander at all, I'm just guessing from the mention of "temporary". -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message