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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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