Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 19:18:30 +0200 From: Mark Huizer <xaa@stack.nl> To: "Daniel R. Brownstone" <drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fw: Nvi saved the file .login (fwd) Message-ID: <19980330191830.42798@ariel.xaa.iaehv.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330104545.448F-100000@ls.wustl.edu>; from Daniel R. Brownstone on Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:46:44AM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330104545.448F-100000@ls.wustl.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 10:46:44AM -0600, Daniel R. Brownstone wrote: > > For some reason, every time our server reboots, some users get an NVI > message (I don't even know what that is...) -- anyway, there's no reason > that some users get it and some don't , near as I can tell, but as you can > see below, it annoys some people... how do I stop it??? > > >>changes to this file using the -r option to nex or nvi: > >> > >> nvi -r .login > nvi is vi, it says here what to do: vi -r .login the machine crashed or rebooted while this user was editing it, and vi tries it best to save your work. or rm /var/tmp/vi.recovery/* Mark -- Nice testing in little China... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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