Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:01:22 -0400 From: gsstoller@optonline.net To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Recovering vi crashes Message-ID: <e2dbf766109b0.430a12f2@optonline.net>
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While I try to close (and save, if need be) any vi windows that I have open, I still run into cases where I get mail from root that I have a killed vi process and can recover the file by typing vi -r <file-name> unfortunately most of the time I get a core dump (which gets named vi.core ) after doing this, and I can only recall about two occasions when such drastic action didn't happen and I was able to recover the file. What is causing this core dump, anything I can do about it? After I have tried to recover the file and have gotten the core dump, I still get mail about that file, so someplace in the system there is extant information stored about the killed vi process, where is this and how can I get rid of it? (I presume that the vi -r command would have taken care of this had it not crashed.) uname -a for my system gives: FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
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