From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 0:38:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from linux.ssc.nsu.ru (linux.ssc.nsu.ru [193.124.209.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C322A14DAE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 00:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@inet.ssc.nsu.ru) Received: (qmail 654 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2000 08:38:15 -0000 Received: from inet.ssc.nsu.ru (62.76.110.12) by hub.freebsd.org with SMTP; 2 Jan 2000 08:38:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (danfe@localhost) by inet.ssc.nsu.ru (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA04609; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:37:54 +0600 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 14:37:54 +0600 (NOVT) From: "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" To: Oliver Fromme Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Files after editing quotas in /tmp In-Reply-To: <200001020827.JAA29418@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >=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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message