From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Apr 15 14:21:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA08351 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA08337 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:21:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA15425; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:21:11 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA22368; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:21:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id XAA13450; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:03:23 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604152103.XAA13450@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Strange things happen... To: Hofera@aol.com Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:03:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <960415134443_375853322@mail02.mail.aol.com> from "Hofera@aol.com" at Apr 15, 96 01:44:43 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)