From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 20 13:54:14 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id NAA12521 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 13:54:14 -0800 Received: from cybernetics.net (jeffh@server0.cybernetics.net [198.80.48.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA12507 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 13:54:03 -0800 Received: by cybernetics.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20322; Mon, 20 Feb 95 16:53:28 EST Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 16:53:26 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Hoffman To: tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't Use Vi In-Reply-To: <199502202211.WAA22529@server.keck.lmu.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 20 Feb 1995 tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu wrote: > 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? The permissions are wrong on your /tmp directory. You are being denied access to /tmp, so it's giving you the above message. If you fix the permissions your problem should be solved. > Thanks for the help. You bet. > Yao-Wen Stephen Tsai 2/20/95 Jeff -- Jeff Hoffman -- jeffh@cybernetics.net ------------------------------------- "A man facing the light looks not into sorrow, but to to the future...always." WWW: http://www.cybernetics.net/users/jeffh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Public Key available on request.