From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 11:15:46 2003 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 B8D5437B405 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:15:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFAB243F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13JFT8X041866; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:15:31 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h13JFTS5041865; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:15:29 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:15:29 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: "Kirk R. Wythers" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi permissions Message-ID: <20030203191529.GA41743@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20030203125622.K15740@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203125622.K15740@lorax.forestry.umn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 01:01:30PM -0600, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: > I'm trying to create a .bashrc file with vi in my home directroy. I'm > gettting the error: > > su-2.05b$ vi .bashrc > ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied > su-2.05b$ > > I am working on configuring a newly set up 5.0-RELEASE box. Permissions > must be messed up somewhere. I can't believe that I neet to be root in > order to create a . file. Check your permissions on /var/tmp. It should be: drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Feb 3 21:48 . -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message