On 29-Mar-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote:
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>> I put an .exrc file in my home directory and even though it is empty, I
> get
>> the following error if I try using vi after creating that file:
>>
>> .exrc: not sourced: writeable by a user other than the owner.
>>
> It is telling you it is not going to take its marching orders from a
> file that can be written by anyone but the owner of the file. At a
> guess, your umask is 0, so the file has general write permission. Most
> distros provide a default bash profile or so that sets umask to 22. see
> man umask.
My umask is not 0; it is 22.
>>
>> What does this mean? I am using Debian and never saw that error when I
> used
>> OpenLinux and created .exrc
>
> Vi is not always vi. Slackware, FI, uses elvis, which does not behave
> so, even when invoked as vi.
vi in Debian (at least here) is really vim.
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Andrew
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