Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 13:40:42 -0500 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: vi Error - Permission Denied Message-ID: <008701c28b44$2c596bd0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <03c701c28b42$94efc880$6e2a6ba5@tagalong>
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> 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? Usually what this means is that the temporary filename that vi has generated and is attempting to use is _the same_ as an existing temporary file in /var/tmp. I don't usually see this on my small FreeBSD machines at home, but I do see this quite frequently on the large multi-user (200+) AIX machines that I use at work where it's not uncommon for people to have 4 or 5 instances of vi running at once. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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