total 16
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel      512 Aug 29  1996 account
drwxr-xr-x   4 root    wheel      512 Aug 29  1996 at
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel     1024 Feb 20 02:03 backups
drwxrwx---   2 root    wheel      512 Aug 29  1996 crash
drwxrwxrwx   3 root    wheel      512 Mar 10 04:00 cron
drwxrwxrwx   3 nobody  wheel      512 Mar 13 12:00 db
drwxrwxr-x   6 games   games      512 Mar 22  1997 games
drwxrwxrwx   3 root    wheel      512 Mar 12 21:00 log
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel      512 Feb  7  1997 mail
drwxrwxrwx   2 daemon  staff      512 Feb  7  1997 msgs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel      512 Aug 29  1996 preserve
drwxr-x---   2 root    operator   512 Aug 29  1996 quotas
drwxrwxrwx   2 root    wheel      512 Mar 13 12:29 run
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    wheel      512 Aug 29  1996 rwho
drwxr-xr-x  11 root    wheel      512 Aug 29  1996 spool
drwxrwxrwt   5 root    wheel      512 Mar 13 15:56 tmp

/var/tmp
total 1
drwxrwxrwt  2 root  wheel  512 Mar 13 20:04 vi.recover


On Fri, 13 Mar 1998 17:04:28 -0500  Doug Jackson wrote:

> I'm running netbsd1.2.1.
> (I know I know...upgrade to 1.3....but in the interim)
> Using vipw I created a user account for djackson.
> User djackson can login no problem but can't vi files.
> How can I fix it so djackson can vi files?

Check the permissions on /var/tmp.

drwxrwxrwt  3 root  wheel  512 Mar  1 08:46 /var/tmp/

Giles