First thought: 

maybe you should have used the -p flag to tar in the install?

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:19:47AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> Just finished installing a special soft-float build of mac68k by hand 
> copying everything after base and etc into /, then using tar -zx.
> 
> Then I set up an admin user, with gid=uid, but with secondary groups 
> set to wheel, operator, staff, guest, and users.
> 
> I can log on as root and use vi with no problems. But I get the message
> 
>     ex/vi: Error: Unable to create temporary permissions file: 
> Permission denied
> 
> I checked /var/tmp/vi.recover and the owner is root, group was wheel. 
> So I changed the group to users, just for fun, and still get the same 
> message. (Makes sense, permission string is drwxrwxrwx.)
> 
> Just for grins, I set up another user, -G to the list above, but let 
> primary user default to users, and I can't vi with that user either.
> 
> Searching the web for the error message didn't turn anything useful up. 
> Any ideas where I should start poking around next?

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