[18324] in Athena Bugs
Problem with vi in Athena 8.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Wed Sep 20 18:56:59 2000
Message-ID: <MtmI2ppz0001FtDFQt@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:56:53 +0000 ()
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
The directory /var/preserve is owned by root mode 655.
When I start vi, (in my testing under Linux) I get:
m10-423-2.mit.edu% vi
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+
Error: /var/preserve/vi.recover: Permission denied.
Modifications not recoverable if the session fails.
/tmp/vi.IJRo4o: new file: line 1
Press any key to continue:
Does this mean that /var/preserve needs to be world writeable, or that
vi needs to be suid root, or what?
At any rate, for those few who use vi, session recovery, and lack of
annoying startup errors would be a good thing.
-wdc
(Who learned vi on a dare in 1984)
