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From: tporczyk@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
Subject: Re: Errors in using VI
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 13:23:25 GMT
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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.

This may not be the solution you were looking for (I don't have FreeBSD
installed, so can't offer a technical solution), but why not mount home
directories on /usr/users, if that's where you want them, and make /home
a symlink to it?

t.