Hi everybody,

Fixed the problem, the permissions of /tmp were:

drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 May 11 00:36 tmp

After chmod 777 /tmp, the problem was fixed.

Is/was there a reason that /tmp wasn't chmod 777?  I installed from the 
restore cd and didn't touch the permissions of /tmp at all

Laurens

Rodrigo Fernandez-Vizarra wrote:
> Hi Laurens,
> 
> is your filesystem mounted readonly?
> 
> type this and then try to edit your file.
> 
> mount -n -o *remount*,rw /
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> Rodrigo
> 
> Laurens Vets wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just installed NetBSD on my qube with the help of the NetBSD 
>> restore cd.  I've added a user, but everytime I want to edit a file 
>> with vi as that user, I got the error message: "ex/vi: Error: Unable 
>> to create temporary file: Permission denied".
>>
>> I don't think this is normal behaviour, but has anybody also had this 
>> problem with the restore cd?  And how do I fix this error?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Laurens V.
>>
>>
> 
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