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From: Philip A Guenther <guenther@...>
Subject: Re: /tmp problem
Date: Saturday, October 24, 1992 - 12:33 pm

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

Make that

chmod 1777 /tmp
chmod 1777 /usr/tmp

This turns the sticky bit on which keeps you from overwriting or erase
someone else's file unless you are root.  Of course, if you are the
only 'real' user this probably doesn't matter much...

Philip Guenther
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