From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 13:37: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCF337B405 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:37:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from 1cust56.tnt1.davis.ca.da.uu.net ([63.61.44.56] helo=earthlink.net) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16MyUv-0007cJ-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:37:02 -0800 Message-ID: <3C3773D7.6040505@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:44:55 -0800 From: tipaporiello Reply-To: tipapori@earthlink.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file dfvi References: <20020105164846.46ebce3d.johann@broadpark.no> <005c01c19605$604322e0$6af25b41@daleco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Kevin Kinsey wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "J.S." >To: >Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 9:48 AM >Subject: Fw: Nvi saved the file dfvi > > >>Why does root continuously send me this e-mail? >> >It's likely that you got into a 'vi' editor session on the file >with name "dfvi" and something went wrong before the file >was saved/written out [there are lots >of ways to finish in vi, but ctl-C is _not_ one of them], system crashed, >etc., >[though the latter seems unlikely on freebsd]). > >It's likely to continue tell you this. Do what it says and it'll >quit. A crude fix: somewhere on your box is a file of "vi recovery >sessions"; remove it and it'll quit bothering you. I believe the >default location is /var/tmp/vi.recover. > Also, if vi -r 'file' and saving then exitng does not work. You can type 'z' at the mail prompt and the program will tell you were the temporary file is located. > > >Kevin Kinsey, fellow pico user *blush* > > >---------------------------------------------------- >Sign Up for NetZero Platinum Today >Only $9.95 per month! >http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Timothy Paporiello mailto:tipapori@earthlink.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message