From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 11:27:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA00110 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from f03n03.cac.psu.edu (f03n03-fddi.cac.psu.edu [146.186.157.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA29998 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CACPPP (access-isdn1-32.yk.psu.edu [146.186.226.162]) by f03n03.cac.psu.edu (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA81286 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:27:40 -0400 Message-ID: <341FE97C.41C67EA6@psu.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:30:20 +0000 From: Brian Freeman X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This question I have involves a repeated mail message I get every time I log on as root. Here is the message: ----------------- From: daemon Date: 9/10/97 X-vi-recover_file: MYKERNEL X-vi-recover-path: /var/tmp/vi.recover/vi.000155 Reply-to: Root From: Root(Nvi Recovery program) To: Root Subject: Nvi saved the file MYKERNEL Precedence: bulk On Sun May 18 23:47:47 1997, the user root was editing a file named MYKERNEL on the machine myname.my.domain, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, it not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to v1: vi -r MYKERNEL --------------------- Every time, no matter what I did before, when I log on as root I get this message. I keep deleting it but that does nothing. What can I do to stop this message? I don't want to recover the changes to MYKERNEL because I changed it on purpose. Thank you, Brian bef126@psu.edu