Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 14:17:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: bef126@psu.edu (Brian Freeman) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail Message-ID: <199709171917.OAA27510@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <341FE97C.41C67EA6@psu.edu> from Brian Freeman at "Sep 17, 97 02:30:20 pm"
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In a previous message, Brian Freeman said: > 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 > You crashed or rebooted while editting the file MYKERNEL. go to /var/tmp/vi.recover and delete/move vi.000155 -- If you feel quizzical during a quiz, what do you feel during a test?
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