Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:37:54 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Files after editing quotas in /tmp Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10001021436140.4580-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <200001020827.JAA29418@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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> > The tilde »~« after the name indicates that it is a backup file > (for example, the ``joe'' editor creates such files by default). > Of course, edquota can't remove such backup files, because it > doesn't know about them. Therefore you have to remove them > manually, or disable the backup feature of your editor. > > If you use ``joe'': You can configure it to put backup files > into a fixed directory. For example, you can let it put all > backup files into ~/tmp/joebackups, and then let a cronjob > remove all files in there that are older than 7 days, or > something like that. I've found this to be very useful. > > Regards > Oliver > Damn me, stupid. Yeah, closed topic :-) Can't believe I didn't notice that tildoes ;-) ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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