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From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,fj.os.386bsd,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: log db: Permission denied.
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Date: 26 Nov 1994 21:54:47 GMT
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Adam Mitchell (adamm@netcom.com) had the courage to say:

: i just installed freebsd 2.0.  whenever i log in as someone
: other than "root" i cannot use any programs that write to
: "/tmp".  for instance, running "vi .cshrc" results in "log
: db: Permission denied."  How can I fix this?

:   thanks!

: adam mitchell

: -- 
:                                              adamm@netcom.com

Log in as root and do the following:

% chmod 1777 /tmp
% chmod 1777 /var/tmp   (<- just to be safe)

--
-Bill Paul
wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu