virecover

[rolfheinrich]

At my FreeBSD 8.2 systems there is an active startup script /etc/rc.d/virecover.

I don't use vi, and I made sure, that no one ever will use vi at my systems, since I prefer nano:

export EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/nano

and of course "vi for never":

cd /usr/bin; mv vi _vi_; ln -s /usr/local/bin/nano vi

So, can I safely deactivate/remove /etc/rc.d/virecover, or otherwise, for what is this script good for?

Many thanks for any reply.

Best regards

Rolf

[aragon]

The more base files you modify manually, the more work you'll have to do after an upgrade. Rather leave those files alone and add this to your /etc/rc.conf:


virecover_enable="NO"


for what is this script good for?
It recovers files that were busy being edited when vi or the FreeBSD system crashed, if that were to happen.

[frig]

This probably isn't correct right now. I use vi often, and my system did not crash in the last couple of months, though I get a vi-recover mail every day I start my computer, and this mail states that a vi recover for some file I edited last time is available (though nothing crashed, I suppose).

But thanks, now I turned it off and probably won't see any useless (for me) vi-recover messages again, thanks to rc.conf.

[UNIXgod]

Sorry if this is wrong, but is there a global shell rc in /etc or /usr/local/etc that can be used for alias. Seems a bit more sane to keep nvi named as the system would expect and simply set an alias to nano.