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linux 8.4.10: /bin/vi

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emil Sit)
Sun Aug 20 13:50:02 2000

Message-Id: <200008201749.NAA31692@w20-575-28.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 13:49:57 -0400
From: Emil Sit <sit@MIT.EDU>

System name:		w20-575-28.mit.edu
Type and version:	i686 8.4.10
Display type:		

Shell:			/bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager:		fvwm

What were you trying to do?
	/bin/vi

What's wrong:
	Error: /var/preserve/vi.recover: Permission denied.
	Modifications not recoverable if the session fails.
	/tmp/vi.81O4fH: new file: line 1

	ls -al /var/preserve
	total 8
	drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Aug  8 04:20 ./
	drwxr-xr-x   19 root     root         4096 Jul 25 05:46 ../

What should have happened:
	No error message.

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