----- Original Message -----
From: "Cybertime Hostmaster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 3:12 PM
Subject: [IMGate] Re: How to remove a pre-postfix email message?
>
> > > 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 most, if not
all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:
vi -r main.cf
> >
> > 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
Thanks Eric, vi -r main.cf and then exiting with :q! cleared out that
pesky email.
Since I was frequently editing the file, it took a while to notice the date
was always the same, and that the message was generated after a reboot! Odd
that it would email the message instead of displaying on the console.
