Re: how to stop alert "Nvi saved the file .procmailrc"
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 11:33:37AM +0000 or thereabouts, David Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Everyday I get the following message set to me. (the date is always 26th of
> jan)
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: Nvi saved the file .procmailrc
> Body: On Mon Jan 26 16:37:17 2004, the user root was editing a
> file named /home/david/.procmailrc on the machine anubis,
> when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not
> all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:
>
> vi -r /home/david/.procmailrc
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I have tried the vi -r ... and I still get the message.
>
> Can anyone give me a hint as to what might be causing this, and how to cure?
>
> My mail setup is exim/ fetchmail/ procmail/ imap/ kmail and i am using Maildir
Have you opened .procmailrc and resaved it? You should get a prompt that
a previous version exists and then ask you what to do, <ie> keep, save,
or overwrite. Do you have two versions, one with a .lck or similiar in
the directory where your procmailrc is?
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