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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:03:22 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        Hofera@aol.com
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange things happen...
Message-ID:  <199604152103.XAA13450@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <960415134443_375853322@mail02.mail.aol.com> from "Hofera@aol.com" at Apr 15, 96 01:44:43 pm

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As Hofera@aol.com wrote:

>       So, what is the reason why I (as dumb user, not as root!) may create a
> file in /usr/tmp but vi rejects this or is not granted to do so?

I can't reproduce it.  vi works fine for me, though it seems it didn't
create a temp file at all in my case.

Are you sure your /usr/tmp is mode 01777?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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