From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 16:33:47 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 2418237B401 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20104.mail.yahoo.com (web20104.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8052A43E3B for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020823233344.87510.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.65.83.144] by web20104.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:33:44 PDT Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: Re: vi errors... unable to edit my .shrc file To: Doug Silver Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 --- Doug Silver wrote: > Make sure the symlinks from /var/tmp are correct and the permissions are > like this: > drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Aug 23 15:31 tmp/ > > If not, do a "chmod 1777 /var/tmp" (for example) to fix it. > > /var/tmp/vi.recover should have the same permissions too. this is what i was going to do... but someone said this would cause problems because it would allow others to delete tmp files that did not belong to them. should i go ahead and to it anyways? -Sameer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message