From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 14 7:20:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.noc.iafrica.com (axl.noc.iafrica.com [196.31.1.175]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5B614E30; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 07:20:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.noc.iafrica.com) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.noc.iafrica.com) by axl.noc.iafrica.com with local-esmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 1298VX-0001pa-00; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:19:23 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Vivek Khera Cc: Adrian Penisoara , Trond Endrestol , FreeBSD stable , FreeBSD current Subject: Re: Making sure /var/tmp/vi.recover exists during reboot In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:12:54 EST." <14463.15606.393166.953233@kci.kciLink.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 17:19:23 +0200 Message-ID: <7041.947863163@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 14 Jan 2000 10:12:54 EST, Vivek Khera wrote: > If you don't like the warning, just delete the recovery procedure > rather than creating the directory. It does no good for you to try to > recover something that will never be there. Exactly. The only thing that comes out of this patch is we support an administrative mistake that leads naive users to believe that vi recovery on reboot is going to work as expected. This is a stupid idea. I wish the person who came up with it would just acknowledge that he's doing something inappropriate and move on, rather than insisting that the rest of us introduce a bad idea into our systems to support his bad practice. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message