Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:45:56PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: [snip,snip,snip] > Perhaps someone will suggest a package that cleans /tmp and /var/tmp > in Debian? yes (for /tmp): tmpreaper Note that /var/tmp is meant to be more permanent (or less temporary, depending on how you look at it) than

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Richard Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-12 14:50:52 -0700]: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:51:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > You can list files that are available for recover with 'vi -r'. At > > boot time or perhaps by cron this is being mailed to users. > > I tried this, and it didn't list

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Richard Otte
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:51:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > You can list files that are available for recover with 'vi -r'. At > boot time or perhaps by cron this is being mailed to users. I tried this, and it didn't list any files. Thanks for suggesting RTFM, but I had done that and wrote th

Re: vi saved file message from root

2002-09-12 Thread Bob Proulx
> >saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the > >changes to this file using the -r option to vi: > > > > vi -r /tmp/vi.7faEP4 Richard Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-11 21:23:12 -0700]: > For almost a year a person with an account on my machine has been > getting email fro