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Hi Scott!

You basically have a access/permissions error or your disk's out of space.

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Scott Reber wrote:

> I am installing a new FreeBsd machine.  4.4 Release.
> When I attempt to edit a file as a non-root user in that non-root's home 
> directory I get the following:
> 
> tethys|~$ vi .bash_profile
> ex/vi: Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover: Permission denied
> ex/vi: Modifications not recoverable if the session fails
> ex/vi: Error: .bash_profile: Permission denied
> ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied
> 
> Editing as root works as expected.  What have I done wrong?
> 
> Other info:
> 
> tethys|~$ uname -a
> FreeBSD tethys.wanlanservices.net 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Fri 
> Nov 16 22:06:23 EST 
> 2001     root@tethys.wanlanservices.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TETHYS  i386
> 
> tethys|~$ ls -al
> total 15
> drwxr-xr-x  4 admin  wheel   512 Nov 17 17:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root   wheel   512 Nov 16 11:17 ..
> -rw-------  1 admin  wheel  1461 Nov 17 17:21 .bash_history
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 admin  wheel   918 Nov 16 23:18 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  wheel   771 Nov 16 11:17 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  wheel   255 Nov 16 11:17 .login
> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  wheel   160 Nov 16 11:17 .login_conf
> -rw-------  1 admin  wheel   371 Nov 16 11:17 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  wheel   331 Nov 16 11:17 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  wheel   789 Nov 16 11:17 .profile
> -rw-------  1 admin  wheel   276 Nov 16 11:17 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--  1 admin  wheel   852 Nov 16 11:17 .shrc
> drwxr-xr-x  2 admin  wheel   512 Nov 16 18:24 .ssh
> 
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