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From: umar@kalypso.cybercom.net (Robert Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: What is this "log db: Permission denied." error message?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 14:20:55 -0500
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yue@heron.Stanford.EDU (Kenneth C. Yue) writes:

>I try to avoid logging in as root, so I open an account for myself.
>When I don't log in as root and try to edit a simple file
>(e.g. .login) using vi, I get the following error message:

>log db: Permission denied.

If I remember right you need to make /tmp and /var/tmp writeable.  


Rob Landry
umar@cybercom.net