From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 24 08:07:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA00177 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 08:07:41 -0800 Received: from jpmorgan.jpmorgan.com (jpmorgan.jpmorgan.com [146.149.99.127]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01719 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 06:13:33 -0800 From: shalit_grigory@jpmorgan.com Received: from tcpg01a.ny.jpmorgan.com by jpmorgan.jpmorgan.com (8.6.9/fma-120691.2); id JAA09563; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:13:28 -0500 Received: from dms15nyd.ny.jpmorgan.com (dms15nyd.ny.jpmorgan.com [146.149.200.185]) by tcpg01a.ny.jpmorgan.com (8.6.9/cjy.sub.1.0) with ESMTP id JAA29751 at Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:13:27 -0500 Received: from localhost by dms15nyd.ny.jpmorgan.com (8.6.4/JPM-FI-1.25) id JAA02077; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:13:26 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 09:13:26 -0500 Message-Id: <199501241413.JAA02077@dms15nyd.ny.jpmorgan.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: vi . files Heloo, for some reason I have problem editing iles like .profile, .login, .cshrc etc... I get an error msg saing: log db: Permition denide. I have this problem with editing system files of the same purpouse as well. I would appritiate I anyone could give me any ideas as what could it be and how would I deal with it. I run FreeBSD 2.0. Thanks in advence Grigory Shalit. Please e-mail to : gshalit@jpmorgan.com & bw1qc@qcunix.acc.qc.edu I never know wich one will I get first to :) Thanks again.