Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:23:16 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@trout.sri.MT.net> To: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't Use Vi Message-ID: <199502202123.OAA07387@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu "Can't Use Vi" (Feb 20, 10:11pm)
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> After I install the FreeBSD 2.0 on my machine. The system create a > new user forme during the installation. But I can not use vi when I > login as this new user. The error message is "log db : Permission Deny". > Can anyone tell me why? First of all, please limit your line length to < 80 chars. The permissions on the /tmp and/or /var/tmp directories are wrong. As root: # chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp It should work fine then. Nate
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