From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 4 19:16: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mw5.texas.net (mw5.texas.net [206.127.30.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9377137B858 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 19:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dread@mw5.texas.net) Received: from localhost.texas.net (tcnet28-050.austin.texas.net [209.99.98.176]) by mw5.texas.net (2.4/2.4) with ESMTP id VAA25203; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 21:16:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dread@localhost) by localhost.texas.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA63841; Fri, 4 Aug 2000 21:16:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dread) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000805005930.25203.qmail@web4302.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 21:15:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Don Read To: Ian Thomas Subject: RE: vi.recover permissions Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Aug-00 Ian Thomas wrote: > After installing FreeBSD without a /var or /tmp > directory and adding them using the information in > Greg Lehey's excellent book I am now getting > permission denied: cannot access vi.recover session > not recoverable when I try to use vi as a user. I > don't get this when running as su. I also get a > permission denied for a /tmp directory. I have set > both /var/tmp and /tmp chmod +t to add the sticky bit. > Still no luck though. Am I missing something obvious? > read+write+execute ? localhost.dread$ ls -l / | grep tmp drwxrwxrwt 5 root wheel 512 Aug 4 20:40 tmp localhost.dread$ ls -l /var/tmp total 2 -rw------- 1 dread wheel 182 Jul 30 09:33 tmp.0.Tu1567 drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 512 Aug 4 20:41 vi.recover Regards, -- Don Read dread@texas.net -- "Stop telling God what to do" - Niels Bohr to A. Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message