From: krej@electrum.kth.se (Kristian Ejvind) Subject: Re: /tmp problem Date: 24 Oct 1992 15:02:05 GMT
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In article <BwLuuC.B22@fc.hp.com> rwp@fc.hp.com (Bob Proulx) writes:
>Kamal Foudil-Bey (foudil@npac.syr.edu) wrote:
>> I added a user to my system to avoid working as root.
>> Everything is fine except for the fact that when I use
>> "vi" I get a message "/tmp file does not exist". What do
>> I have to do to solve that?
>
>You probably have the permissions on /tmp messed up.
>
>chmod 777 /tmp
>chmod 777 /usr/tmp
>
>This should fix the problem.
>Bob Proulx
>rwp@fc.hp.com
But remember the sticky bit!!! It should be
chmod 1777 /tmp
chmod 1777 /usr/tmp
It won't affect your system as long as you're alone but anyway...
/Kristian Ejvind