[18326] in Athena Bugs
Re: Problem with vi in Athena 8.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Sep 20 21:00:18 2000
Message-Id: <200009210100.VAA10129@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:56:53 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 21:00:12 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Does this mean that /var/preserve needs to be world writeable, or
> that vi needs to be suid root, or what?
/var/preserve/vi.recover should exist, mode 4777. The athena-nvi
package creates this directory, but our clean_tmp_areas program nukes
it. (I noticed this a while ago, but don't seem to have developed a
fix.)
