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Date:      Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:22:32 +0000 ()
From:      James Raynard <fqueries@parody.tecc.co.uk>
To:        M C Wong <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com" <freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [2.1R] vi problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951217132005.188A-100000@parody.tecc.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199512112309.AA211683384@hp.com>

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On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, M C Wong wrote:

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> Can someone please tell me what's wrong with vi ? I am trying to
> edit files owned by myself but got some problem :
> 
> lespoir:/local/home/wongm/tmp 123 > setenv TERM vt100
> lespoir:/local/home/wongm/tmp 124 > vi main.cc
> log db: Permission denied.

vi can't create a temporary file because the permissions on /tmp have
somehow got screwed up. As root, do

chmod 777 /tmp
chmod +t /tmp

to sort them out.

James
 
Segmentation fault (core dumped): cannot find file '.signature'




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