----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Kinkade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:38 AM Subject: Re: vi Error - Permission Denied
> 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. Thanks for nudging me in the right direction. On the machine that couldn't run vi, /tmp was a symlink to /usr/tmp, not /var/tmp. Thus I was not comparing apples to apples. I copies the contents of /usr/tmp to /var/tmp and created the appropriate symlink. Everything works now. Thanks again, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
