RE: Weirdness with vi
Thanks everyone, turns out that vi was trying to create temp files in /tmp
so I had to change permissions. Thanks for the help.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Tomasz Papszun [mailto:tomek@lodz.tpsa.pl]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 9:29 AM
To: Don Hatch
Cc: debian-isp@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Weirdness with vi
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 at 8:46:40 -0700, Don Hatch wrote:
> I've never seen this one before so I would really appreciate any help I
can get. My users can't seem to be able to get vi to work. If I use it
as root it works but when run as a user I get this error:
>
> ex/vi: Error: Log file: Permission denied
>
> I've never seen this before, and can't figure out which log file it's
referring to. Any help is appreciated.
>
Maybe permissions for directory /var/tmp/vi.recover are incorrect.
They should be
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root
i.e. with "sticky bit" (marked with "t").
P.S. Please, shorten the lines in your mail messages. Currently they are
far too long. According to the Netiquette they should _not_ exceed about
74 characters (before quoting).
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