topic Re: vi permission denied in Operating System - HP-UX

vi permission denied

kggj — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:24:31 GMT

Hi

I can't open any new files with vi , for any non root users . We have HPUX 11.23

Can some one help ?

KGG

Re: vi permission denied

Tim Nelson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:26:57 GMT

Is this a file permission thing with the files ? Then modify the permissions appropriately..

Is this a global issue, no matter what the file permissions are vi has issue ? Then check /var/preserve directory permissions, needs to be 777.

Give us some actual information to work with and we will try and help.

Re: vi permission denied

Torsten. — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:27:33 GMT

How about the permissions and ownership for these new files? Please check.

Re: vi permission denied

kggj — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:29:19 GMT

Hi

/var/preserve is 777

When I vi fn, it gives /var/tmp/Ex permission denied .

I have created 4 Id's and this happends with all the four.

Rgds/ KGG

Re: vi permission denied

Pete Randall — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:31:12 GMT

Are the permissions on /var/tmp 777 as well?

Pete

Re: vi permission denied

kggj — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:41:11 GMT

Yes.

ll -ld /var/tmp
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 8192 Feb 19 10:39 /var/tmp

Rgds/ KGG

Re: vi permission denied

Tim Nelson — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:07:27 GMT

The file in /var/Ex12345 is the temp buffer file for your vi session. The number should be unique to the pid that vi is running.

Either you have a pile of non-unique /var/tmp/ExPID files. I will also assume that root owns all these files. Maybe send a listing.

Remove all Ex12345 files from /var/tmp and try again.

If not then /var/tmp or maybe even /var still has a permission problem like no execute in /var ?

Re: vi permission denied

kggj — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:27:47 GMT

Hi

thank you all.

the problem was the wrong umask value on the system.

set that to 022 and it resolved the vi issues.

rgds/ KGG