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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!se From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Seeting groups for users on FBSD--user can't access vi Date: 20 Mar 1995 18:56:52 GMT Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3kkj5k$h9e@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de> References: <pawals00.795503186@mik.uky.edu> <3ke1de$jdi@deep.rsoft.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: fileserv1.mi.uni-koeln.de To: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) In article <3ke1de$jdi@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>, a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: |> In article <pawals00.795503186@mik.uky.edu>, |> patrick a walsh <pawals00@mik.uky.edu> wrote: |> |> >I am very new to FreeBSD and am having trouble with it. I want to run |> >vi on my personal account, but it either tells me, "Error: Temporary file: |> >Permission denied" or after I changed my group access to wheel, "log db: |> >Permission denied". |> |> You don't have access to one of the temporary directories. Make sure that /tmp and |> /var/tmp have rwx permissions for everyone, plus the sticky bit: |> |> chmod 0177 /tmp /var/tmp Hmm, guess you meant to say: chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp Regards, -- Stefan Esser Internet: <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE> Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706019 Universitaet zu Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 Weyertal 80 50931 Koeln