[18170] in Athena Bugs
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.