heya looking at the script that's producing this (/etc/init.d/nviboot), it seems that the directory you want to look at is /var/tmp/vi.recover. anything in there?
sean
On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:23:13PM +0000, Pigeon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The other day something dumped me into vi, which I got out of by my
> usual method of trying every key combination I can think of, swearing
> a lot and doing kill -9 from another vc.
>
> Now I keep getting this mail every time I boot up: (headers snipped)
>
> >
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nvi recovery program)
> >Subject: Nvi saved the file L367-13TMP.c
> >
> >On Sat Dec 14 21:48:32 2002, the user pigeon was editing a
> >file named /tmp/L367-13TMP.c on the machine pigeon, when it
> >was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of
> >the changes to this file using the -r option to view:
> >
> > view -r /tmp/L367-13TMP.c
> >
>
> Obviously the file doesn't exist in /tmp anymore, but doing
> find / -name '*L367*' didn't produce any result. Where is it? I want
> to delete it. I don't want to view it, and I don't want to recover
> changes because I haven't actually lost anything. I just want this
> annoying message to go away and recover the filespace.
>
> Pigeon
>
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