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From: se@MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Seeting groups for users on FBSD--user can't access vi
Date: 20 Mar 1995 18:56:52 GMT
Organization: Institute for Mathematics, University of Cologne, Germany
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Message-ID: <3kkj5k$h9e@news.rrz.uni-koeln.de>
References: <pawals00.795503186@mik.uky.edu> <3ke1de$jdi@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>
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To: a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)

In article <3ke1de$jdi@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>, a09878@giant.rsoft.bc.ca (Curt Sampson) writes:
|> In article <pawals00.795503186@mik.uky.edu>,
|> patrick a walsh <pawals00@mik.uky.edu> wrote:
|> 
|> >I am very new to FreeBSD and am having trouble with it.  I want to run
|> >vi on my personal account, but it either tells me, "Error: Temporary file: 
|> >Permission denied" or after I changed my group access to wheel, "log db:
|> >Permission denied".
|> 
|> You don't have access to one of the temporary directories. Make sure that /tmp and
|> /var/tmp have rwx permissions for everyone, plus the sticky bit:
|> 
|> 	chmod 0177 /tmp /var/tmp

Hmm, guess you meant to say:

	chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp

Regards,
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