[ On Monday, March 8, 2004 at 17:15:44 (-0500), VaX#n8 wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: vi.recover never gets cleaned up 
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.43.0402241938530.5951-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>, "J
> eremy C. Reed" writes:
> >On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, VaX#n8 wrote:
> >
> >> At every boot I keep getting email about files I finished editing long ago.
> >> Is there something in NetBSD that cleans them out of /var/tmp/vi.recover,
> >> or are we supposed to do that manually?
> >
> >Just do the "vi -r ..." like it suggests.
> >
> 
> I do, and it says:
> 
> $ vi -r /path/to/file.txt
> No files named /path/to/file.txt, readable by you, to recover
> 
> In case it's not clear, I was not editing said file when the system rebooted.
> I had exited normally, and yet I still get these annoyance emails.

Are you doing this on a diskless client (i.e. with /var/tmp on NFS)?

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