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From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
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Subject: Re: 4.4 Release vi problem
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, twig les wrote:

> Damn, you nailed it again.  I did a 'cp -R
> /var/tmp/vi.recover /var/tmp/vi.recover.backup'.  Then
> a rm -rf /var/tmp/vi.recover.  At boot it mentioned
> that it couldn't find /var/tmp/vi.recover (but still
> booted fine) so I threw a 'touch /var/tmp/vi.recover'
> for good measure and it works like new again.

There was a typo in my previous mail.

It should say 'rm /var/tmp/vi.recover/*'

That is, remove the files in the directory, not the directory itself. If you
did that, create it again, and 'chmod 1777 /var/tmp/vi.recover'

Sorry for the typo.


				Fer

>
> Thanks again.  BTW, I didn't need to use the
> /var/tmp/vi.recover.backup, the system works fine (to
> my knowledge...).
>
>
> --- Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, twig les wrote:
> >
> > > Well you nailed it.  My DNS server was still set
> > to my
> > > old one.  Once I changed that it let me in right
> > away
> > > via ssh.  And netstat -a works fine too (again).
> > > Thnx.
> > >
> > > The vi problem still happens.  I tried vi -r after
> > it
> > > booted and it recovered snort.conf, but on reboot
> > it
> > > hangs again.  This is really weird cause Snort
> > still
> > > works fine....
> >
> > If you don't care about those recover files, you can
> > just
> > 'rm /var/tmp/vi.recover/'.
> >
> > No files to recover, no hang trying to recover them
> > =0)
> >
> >
> > 			Fer
> >
>
>
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