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Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:16:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Kenji Tozaki <ktozaki@pacificwind.net>
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Subject: Re: Technical Equestion
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the vi stuff means there are files in /var/tmp that need clearing if you
want it to shut up.

On Sun, 20 May 2001, Kenji Tozaki wrote:

> Dear FreeBSD.org supporter,
> 
> I think I misspelled something in rc.conf.  Right after the "starting standard daemons: inetd cron sendmail", my conputer hangs.
> After about 5 minutes of that, it shows "Recovering vi editor sessions", and gives me longin prompt after 10 minutes.
> 
> Another disturbing this is that at root, I'm getting a mail, I guess from daemon, with a following text:
> 
> " On Tue May 1 22:29:33 2001, the user root was editing a file named help on the machine , when it was saved for recovery.  You can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:
> 
>     vi -r help"
> 
> Why am I getting messages as such?
> 
> Thank you very much! I want to get it running so that I can brag about FreeBSD when my friends come to my home.
> It's great OS.  I'm happy that I'm learning other than that M***soft stuff.
> 
> Kenji
> 


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