From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 7:28:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D170414E58 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:28:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.040 #1) id 11g7a7-0006tr-00; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:28:11 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Michael Rothenberg Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions for users in general In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:30:38 -0400." <3.0.3.32.19991026093038.007274e8@slider> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:28:11 +0200 Message-ID: <26526.940948091@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:30:38 -0400, Michael Rothenberg wrote: > vi gave me the message: Permission denied: Modifications not > recoveralble if session fails. It's probably having trouble creating a recovery file, which is useful if your system dies while you're messing around with a file. You should check the permissions of your /tmp and /var/tmp/vi.recover directories. The default is sticky world writable, owned by root:wheel. You can "make it so" with these commands: chown root:wheel /tmp /var/tmp/vi.recover chmod 01777 /tmp /var/tmp/vi.recover Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message