From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 17:15:49 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 9CB2737B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from c3po.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33CE943E42 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:15:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mcglk@artlogix.com) Received: from ralf.artlogix.com.artlogix.com (ralf.artlogix.com [192.168.0.4]) by c3po.artlogix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9589F1A97D; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:17:09 -0700 (PDT) To: Bsd Neophyte Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi errors... unable to edit my .shrc file References: <20020823225239.78270.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 23 Aug 2002 17:16:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20020823225239.78270.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <86k7mh9kmw.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) 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 Bsd Neophyte writes: | --- "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: | | > Symbolic links to where? To a partition that isn't mounted, perhaps? | | this is what it looks like: | | .......... | lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Aug 3 02:23 tmp -> /usr/tmp | drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 Aug 3 02:23 usr | lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Aug 3 02:22 var -> /usr/var | | is this wrong? Do /usr/tmp and /usr/var actually exist? If so, what are *their* permissions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message