In article <20011109.004346.68557999.uebayasi@soum.co.jp>,
Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@soum.co.jp> wrote:
>> anyone know how to turn off the vi recovery program in netbsd
>> 1.5.2???
>>
>> I don't even use vi and when I edit a file in pico it sends me a
>> load of mail messages on boot!
>
>How about adding such a line into /etc/rc.conf:
>
>  virecover=NO
>

This is a bit too drastic. I think that the user should remove the
preserved files instead. It is not nice to turn off a useful feature,
just because it produces annoying messages that can be easily avoided.

christos