Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Kenji Tozaki <ktozaki@pacificwind.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Technical Equestion Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10105201416150.4837-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <000f01c0e147$985eef60$37323c04@cumine500>
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the vi stuff means there are files in /var/tmp that need clearing if you want it to shut up. On Sun, 20 May 2001, Kenji Tozaki wrote: > Dear FreeBSD.org supporter, > > I think I misspelled something in rc.conf. Right after the "starting standard daemons: inetd cron sendmail", my conputer hangs. > After about 5 minutes of that, it shows "Recovering vi editor sessions", and gives me longin prompt after 10 minutes. > > Another disturbing this is that at root, I'm getting a mail, I guess from daemon, with a following text: > > " On Tue May 1 22:29:33 2001, the user root was editing a file named help on the machine , 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 help" > > Why am I getting messages as such? > > Thank you very much! I want to get it running so that I can brag about FreeBSD when my friends come to my home. > It's great OS. I'm happy that I'm learning other than that M***soft stuff. > > Kenji > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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