Re: nvi error?

Hi Mike You wrote: does 'ls -al /tmp' turn up any vi looking directories that may have bad permissions on them? No, didn't see one. Btw, I've found the program 'strace' to be extremely useful in ttracking down stuff like this. Try strace -o output nvi somefile Here is the output:

nvi error?

Hi all, When I try to use vi in nonroot user I get this: LeBox:/home/dayear :- vi Error: ex output: Permission denied. This only happens in nonroot. I can use other editors(ee,ae...) fine. Here are the listing for nvi and nex: -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 292428