From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 18:35:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web2.sea.nwserv.com (web2.sea.nwserv.com [216.145.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DDAB37B509 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 18:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Received: from localhost (jfreeze@localhost) by web2.sea.nwserv.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA48472; Sun, 21 May 2000 18:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@freeze.org) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:35:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Freeze X-Sender: jfreeze@web2.sea.nwserv.com To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: jmz@freebsd.org Subject: Offtopic: xdvi and temp files Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Envelope-To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When I run xdvi I get the following message: === jfreeze@eeyore ('tty') /usr/home/jfreeze/personal/goals 10 -> xdvi goals.dvi xdvi.bin: Could not create temporary directory. Exiting. When I run this as root, it works. Obviously it wants to create a file and does not have the rights. Can someone tell me where/what this file is? Thanks ============================================ Jim Freeze jim@freeze.org www.freeze.org -------------- Save on CDs, DVDs and Books till May 31 2000 $10 Off a purchase of $30 and $33 Off a purchase of $100. Visit www.freeze.org ============================================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message