Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:28:11 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Permissions for users in general Message-ID: <26526.940948091@axl.noc.iafrica.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:30:38 -0400." <3.0.3.32.19991026093038.007274e8@slider>
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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
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