On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:29:19AM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I've decided to try and wean myself off ee and move to vi. I have two > boxes, both running 4.7-RELEASE-p1. On one, I tried the following > logged on with normal user privileges: > > blacklamb> vi practice > ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied > > A google search on this error suggests that permissions are not set > correctly on /var/tmp and /var/tmp/vi.recover so I check them and they > appear to be OK. > > blacklamb# ls -ld /var/tmp > drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Nov 13 08:45 /var/tmp > > blacklamb# ls -ld /var/tmp/vi.recover > drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Nov 10 12:22 /var/tmp/vi.recover > > So I check my other system and the permissions are the same, yet I can > use vi logged on with normal privledges. Any ideas on what is wrong > here? > > Thanks, > > Drew
>From the vi manpage: "directory, dir [environment variable TMPDIR, or /tmp] The directory where temporary files are created." Try an `ls -l /` and check the mode of /tmp.....also try an `echo $TMPDIR` and see if it is set, and if so, what it points to. Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message