In article <14853.1510405...@andromeda.noi.kre.to>, Robert Elz <k...@munnari.oz.au> wrote: > Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:25:20 +0000 > From: co...@sdf.org > Message-ID: <20171111112520.ga17...@sdf.org> > > | I lose vi files by SSH problems, and I don't reboot the server, so I > | only found out about ancient virecover'd files a few months later. > >There is nothing wrong with you adding a "vi -r" or even virecover >call to your .profile on a server which you use like that - in fact >it is probably quite a reasonable thing to do (and perhaps even share >the method in some doc somewhere.) > >It is unreasonable to inflict on people who don't want/need it, just >because it happens to be useful to you.
Just set virecover=NO in /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf and have people who want it turn it on manually from now on. christos
