From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 15:49: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F8237B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:48:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51E8043E75 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 15:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail4.nc.rr.com (fe4 [24.93.67.51]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7NMnhts011586; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:49:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail4.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:48:57 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id ABDCEBA12; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:48:51 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Bsd Neophyte , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi errors... unable to edit my .shrc file Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 18:48:51 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <20020823221943.389.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020823221943.389.qmail@web20107.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208231848.51425.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 23 August 2002 06:19 pm, Bsd Neophyte wrote: | i get the following error when trying to edit my .shrc file: | | ------------------- | $ vi .shrc | ex/vi: Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover: Permission denied | ex/vi: Modifications not recoverable if the session fails | ex/vi: Error: .shrc: Permission denied | ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied | ------------------- | | does this have anything to do with the fact i don't have var and tmp | slices? i used the method in greg lehey's book in creating symbolic | links instead of having hard partitions. Symbolic links to where? To a partition that isn't mounted, perhaps? | | i tried looking in the archives for a solution, but i didn't find | anything. | | as always, any and all help will be greatly appreciated. | | -Sameer | | __________________________________________________ | Do You Yahoo!? | Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes | http://autos.yahoo.com | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message