From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Dec 16 12:10: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C733737B401 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFE643EC2 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBGKA3x3046584 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBGKA3EK046583; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200212162010.gBGKA3EK046583@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Tom Rhodes Subject: Re: docs/46295: please add information to Nvi recovery email Reply-To: Tom Rhodes Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/46295; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tom Rhodes To: rdm@cfcl.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/46295: please add information to Nvi recovery email Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:07:33 -0500 On Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:56:53 -0800 (PST) Rich Morin wrote: > vi (nvi, really), sends out email when it discovers that a > file was being edited during a disorderly machine shutdown: > > >On Sun Nov 24 13:08:39 2002, the user rdm was editing a file > >named About_Us.htm on the machine cfcl.com, when it was > >saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the > >changes to this file using the -r option to vi: > > > > vi -r About_Us.htm > > It might be useful to add some text to this message, saying > that > /var/tmp/vi.recover is the default recovery file directory. (I > know this is in the man page for vi, but an explicit note > would also be useful.) Shouldn't this be a conf issue? -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message