From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 20 14:33:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id OAA14977 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:33:18 -0800 Received: from prosun.first.gmd.de (prosun.first.gmd.de [192.35.150.136]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA14937 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 14:33:02 -0800 Received: from g386bsd.first.gmd.de by prosun.first.gmd.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20687; Mon, 20 Feb 95 23:18:20 +0100 Received: by g386bsd.first.gmd.de (XAA00312); Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:20:27 +0100 From: Andreas Schulz Message-Id: <199502202220.XAA00312@g386bsd.first.gmd.de> Subject: Re: Can't Use Vi To: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 23:20:27 +0059 (MET) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502202211.WAA22529@server.keck.lmu.edu> from "tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu" at Feb 20, 95 10:11:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 566 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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? Check the permission of "/tmp", this must look like "drwxrwxrwt". You can set that as the superuser with "chmod 1777 /tmp" . ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de ) Andreas Schulz GMD-FIRST 12489 Berlin-Adlershof Rudower Chaussee 5 Gebaeude 13.7 Tel: +49-30-6392-1856/+49-177-2134745 Germany/Europe