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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Users can't vi
Date: 2 Jan 1995 06:47:14 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  Montana
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Message-ID: <3e87hi$r2f@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
References: <Roy-3012942307210001@adept.cts.com>
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In article <Roy-3012942307210001@adept.cts.com>,
Roy Lovejoy <Roy@AdeptSolutions.com> wrote:
>Now this is a strange one...
>
>I built a virgin FreeBSD system, after adding the first user, exiting
>root, logging in as the new user, I couldn't vi. ANY FILE! It kept saying
>something like:
>
>log db: Invalid permission

Bug in the install scripts.  As root:

# chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp

should do the trick.



Nate
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