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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

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