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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Errors in using VI Date: 13 Dec 1994 16:15:16 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3ckhak$bmr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3cinge$q6j@crl9.crl.com> <tporczykD0r3v1.H8D@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu >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. Try the following: chmod 1777 /tmp chmod 177 /var/tmp [as root, of course], and also make sure both those places are mounted read/write not r/o. --rafal