From: Bob Proulx (rwp@fc.hp.com)
Date: 10/23/92 

From: rwp@fc.hp.com (Bob Proulx)
Subject: Re: /tmp problem
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 02:56:36 GMT

Kamal Foudil-Bey (foudil@npac.syr.edu) wrote:
> I added a user to my system to avoid working as root.
> Everything is fine except for the fact that when I use
> "vi" I get a message "/tmp file does not exist". What do
> I have to do to solve that?

You probably have the permissions on /tmp messed up.

chmod 777 /tmp
chmod 777 /usr/tmp

This should fix the problem.
Bob Proulx
rwp@fc.hp.com