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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!siemens.at!pc2213.gud.siemens.co.at!not-for-mail From: salb@pc2213.gud.siemens.co.at (Bernd Salbrechter) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: vi temp files? Date: 22 Jan 1996 10:20:12 GMT Organization: Siemens AG Austria Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4dvocs$l40@news.siemens.at> References: <4djbih$coj@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <4dk1l9$qjs@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2213.gud.siemens-austria Curt Sampson (curt@portal.ca) wrote: : In article <4djbih$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. vi honores the environment variable TMPDIR, but dosen't fall back to /var/tmp or /tmp if it couldn't access the temporary file.