On Friday, March 30, 2001, at 05:45 PM, Randal Cox wrote:
>> I just tried to use the perldoc command from the command line and got
>> this error:
>>
>> [localhost:/var/tmp] gary% perldoc perldoc
>> Can't open /var/tmp/tmp.0.000366: Permission denied at
>> /usr/bin/perldoc line 331.
>>
>> Has anyone else had this problem? (It happens no matter what doc I'm
>> trying to access.) Perhaps there's something wrong with my Perl
>> installation that someone more Unix-y than myself can identify?
>>
> Try this (I got the same problem on one of my OSX installations)
> sudo tcsh <and then give the root password>
> chmod 0777 /var/tmp
> exit
>
Woo hoo! That was it... just a permissions thing.
I still can't get used to the fact that I'm actually using UNIX commands
on a Mac. Is this weird or what?
Thanks alot!
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Gary Blackburn
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