*BSD News Article 59336


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!portal.ca!not-for-mail
From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: vi temp files?
Date: 17 Jan 1996 15:44:41 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
Lines: 16
Message-ID: <4dk1l9$qjs@cynic.portal.ca>
References: <4djbih$coj@huron.eel.ufl.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: cynic.portal.ca

In article <4djbih$coj@huron.eel.ufl.edu>,
Mauricio Tavares <raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu> wrote:
>% vi *.conf
>log db: Permission denied.
>
>I think vi is not being able to write to its temp files.  Are they 
>created in /tmp as opposite to /usr/tmp?

Vi does need to be able to write to /tmp. Set the permissions on it
properly.

cjs
-- 
Curt Sampson    curt@portal.ca		Info at http://www.portal.ca/
Internet Portal Services, Inc.	
Vancouver, BC   (604) 257-9400		De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil.