[4429] in testers
Re: vi warning message
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 8 00:26:02 2000
Message-Id: <200006080425.AAA12440@small-gods.mit.edu>
To: Alex Rolfe <arolfe@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:15:21 EDT."
<200006071915.PAA01874@alice-whacker.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2000 00:25:55 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Error: /var/preserve/vi.recover: Permission denied.
> Modifications not recoverable if the session fails.
Thanks for reporting this. It should be fixed in the next patch
release.
("mkdir -m 1777 -p /var/preserve/vi.recover" as root should fix the
problem on a per-machine basis, in the mean time.)