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Date:      Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:37:54 +0600 (NOVT)
From:      "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" <danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Files after editing quotas in /tmp
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.10001021436140.4580-100000@inet.ssc.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200001020827.JAA29418@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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>=20
> The tilde =BB~=AB after the name indicates that it is a backup file
> (for example, the ``joe'' editor creates such files by default).
> Of course, edquota can't remove such backup files, because it
> doesn't know about them.  Therefore you have to remove them
> manually, or disable the backup feature of your editor.
>=20
> If you use ``joe'':  You can configure it to put backup files
> into a fixed directory.  For example, you can let it put all
> backup files into ~/tmp/joebackups, and then let a cronjob
> remove all files in there that are older than 7 days, or
> something like that.  I've found this to be very useful.
>=20
> Regards
>    Oliver
>=20

Damn me, stupid.  Yeah, closed topic :-)  Can't believe I didn't notice
that tildoes ;-)

=2E/danfe




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