From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 15:19:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AEF837B40A for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20107.mail.yahoo.com (web20107.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 118D043E77 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020823221943.389.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.144] by web20107.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:19:43 PDT Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:19:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: vi errors... unable to edit my .shrc file To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i get the following error when trying to edit my .shrc file: ------------------- $ vi .shrc ex/vi: Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover: Permission denied ex/vi: Modifications not recoverable if the session fails ex/vi: Error: .shrc: Permission denied ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied ------------------- does this have anything to do with the fact i don't have var and tmp slices? i used the method in greg lehey's book in creating symbolic links instead of having hard partitions. i tried looking in the archives for a solution, but i didn't find anything. as always, any and all help will be greatly appreciated. -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes http://autos.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message