Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07354; Fri, 15 Mar 96 17:05:56 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14947; Fri, 15 Mar 96 17:05:07 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/8.6.12) id OAA25904; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:12:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from Mercury.PG.NET by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id OAA25886 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from [206.68.39.9] by Mercury.PG.NET with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:04:27 +0000 X-Sender: Tank@Mail.PG.NET Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 13:03:33 -0600 To: NetBSD-help@NetBSD.ORG From: Tank@pg.net (Tank) Subject: Re: Problems with v1.1 (i386) Sender: owner-netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: list X-Loop: netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG >On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Tank wrote: > >> Greets Again- >> >> Another problem I am having in addition to the ether interface is >> the following. >> >> I created an account for myself. >> I copied the dot files from /usr/shar/skel. >> I chown'd the files to myself. >> I chmod'd the file to 700 >> >> I could not modify the files. >> >> I then chmod'd the files to 777, but still no luck... >> >Did you remember to chown the directory itself? If you don't have write >permission on the directory, you will be unable to delete or create files. Well, it turns out that the /tmp directory was not was not world accessable, and therefore was blowing out vi.... Thanks for all the help.... Now if I can get the network init fixed.... 8) ______________________________________________________________________________ Tank (SPM) Sean P. McNamara The Planet Group, Inc. Tank@PG.NET Design, Communications, and Technology Voice: (312) 772-8333 Fax: (312) 772-9214