Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:33:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> To: Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi errors... unable to edit my .shrc file Message-ID: <20020823233344.87510.qmail@web20104.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208231528200.31907-100000@danzig.sd.quantified.net>
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--- Doug Silver <dsilver@urchin.com> 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
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