[comp.mail.elm] Trouble with elm and vi - error after edit

joe@bram.UUCP (Joe Saladino) (12/01/90)

I am having trouble with elm from time to time with the following error.

Can't invoke editor /usr/bin/vi for composition.

This doesn't make sense since it works most of the time and once in a
while it bombs.

Anyone out there having the same problem?

Thanks for your help.  Email responses to me and I will post summary.

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joe@bram.UUCP (Joe Saladino) (12/01/90)

joe@bram.UUCP (Joe Saladino) writes:

:I am having trouble with elm from time to time with the following error.

:Can't invoke editor /usr/bin/vi for composition.

:This doesn't make sense since it works most of the time and once in a
:while it bombs.

:Anyone out there having the same problem?

Found the trouble.  /usr/tmp set rwxrwxrwt and elm has s bit set so
the tmp file in /usr/tmp was not accessable.  something like that.
I changed tmpdir to /tmp and it works fine.


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