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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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 Tomasz Papszun   SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland  | And it's only
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