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From: bealar@ndlc.occ.uky.edu (Andy Beal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Errors in using VI
Date: 14 Dec 1994 19:17:33 GMT
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Tony Porczyk (tporczyk@netcom.com) wrote:
: bhovey@crl.com (Brian T. Hovey) writes:

: >After setting up a standard account in FreeBSD, I'm getting errors when trying
: >to use VI.  The error I'm getting is 'log db: Permission denied.  The only
: >thing I did was change the adduser.sh script from /home to /usr/users.  Any
: >fixes for this would be helpful.

A bug in the installation of 2.0 did not correctly set permissions on /tmp

chmod go+rwx /tmp

Should fix it.


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