From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs.d permission denied Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 13:43:29 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1153761494.174267.127920@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153770286 1866 80.91.229.2 (24 Jul 2006 19:44:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 24 21:44:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G56Ly-0003cF-An for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:44:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G56Lx-0002Xj-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G56Lm-0002Xe-AY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:44:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G56Lj-0002XS-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:44:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G56Lj-0002XP-N1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G56Ms-0007RN-RF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G56Lc-0003Z4-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:44:12 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:44:12 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:44:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: <1153761494.174267.127920@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36207 Archived-At: RichT wrote: > I sudo to root to set up a system, the set up command throws up a form > in my 'favorite' editor emacs and when I try to edit the form, after a > short time it starts beeping with > Creating directory: permission denied, /home/.../.emacs.d > I exit emacs and emacs produces a core file. Yikes. > On the advice of this forum, I added > (setq auto-save-list-file-prefix nil) > to my .emacs file to no effect. The version of emacs is 21.3.1 on > Linux. Since you've su'ed to root, I think you need to put that in the root /.emacs file, or start emacs with -u $LOGNAME to get your customizations. > Does anyone have a suggestion? Around here everyone suggests that I > switch to a different editor. Very Impetuous. -- Kevin