From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 4 10:46:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A51014C01 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:46:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00119; Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Pete Vanderburgh Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file [xyz] In-Reply-To: <37556DB9.C4A2CCA2@verio.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Pete Vanderburgh wrote: > Hey y'all. I've been looking through questions and usenet, and haven't > seen this one before, but I think it's a simple question. > > Every time I edit a file with the vi editor, and log out of my local > host, the next time I log in, I always get the message from root (Nvi > recovery program): > > On [date&time] the user peterv was editing a file named [xyz] on the > machine [host.here.net], 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 [xyz] > --- > > ... where 'xyz' is the file I was editing. Any ideas what I can do to > get rid of these annoying messages? I'll often get several if I worked > on said file many times in a session. I'm using FreeBSD 3.1 Stable and > IceWm for X-Windows. Well, if you execute the command, you'll find that the message goes away. Go figure. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message