Re: nvi error?

1996-10-01 Thread David Puryear
Hi Mike You wrote: > > does 'ls -al /tmp' turn up any vi looking directories that may > have bad permissions on them? No, didn't see one. > Btw, I've found the program 'strace' to be extremely useful in > ttracking down stuff like this. Try > > strace -o output nvi somefile Here is the ou

nvi error?

1996-09-30 Thread David Puryear
Hi all, When I try to use vi in nonroot user I get this: LeBox:/home/dayear :-> vi Error: ex output: Permission denied. This only happens in nonroot. I can use other editors(ee,ae...) fine. Here are the listing for nvi and nex: -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 292428 Au