From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 11:33:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47BDD37B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:33:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA78996; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:33:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 13:33:12 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Dolgan Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling nvi restore mails In-Reply-To: <20000821111355.J358@linuxfan.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Dolgan wrote: :This may be a stupid question, but does anyone know how to stop the mails from nvi about restoring lost files? : :Sometimes I close GNOME without properly exiting vi in a terminal, but my work was saved and I never need the restore feature. : :How do I stop it from mailing me about it? There doesn't seem to be a rc.conf knob for this, which I would have thought there would be. Look at the /etc/rc script. Find the line that looks like sendmail -t < $i and comment it out. It's possible you will need to replace it with a line that does nothing of note; I don't remember how ash deals with empty then clauses. Regards, David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message