> > On Wed May 21 16:04:51 2003, the user root was editing a > > file named main.cf on the machine... > > when it was saved for recovery. You can recover... > > I think this email was automatically generated on my FreeBSD 4.7 system > before postfix was installed. Since postfix replaces sendmail and mailq > with it's own versions, where do I track down and purge this message? > /var/mail is empty, and /root/mbox does not exist.
Usually this means you dumped out of vi. I would start by looking at vi and see how it generates these and see if there is a way to reset the vi recovery system. --Eric
