Hi
It was created by vi. If you exit vi normally it deletes it. If a crash
occurs you can recover the file by saying vi -r swap-file. It recovers almost
all the changes that would have gone to toss otherwise.
Vi is damn powerful man...
Bye
Shridhar
On Friday 02 February 2001 13:28, you wrote:
> Hello LIH ,
> while editing vi /etc/inetd.conf i get the following message .? How disd
> this ".inetd.conf.swp"
> get formed ? and what does it mean ...
>
>
> ATTENTION
> Found a swap file by the name ".inetd.conf.swp"
> dated: Fri Feb 2 16:13:33 2001
> owned by: root
> file name: /etc/inetd.conf
> host name: anamika.cgl.co.in
> user name: root
> process ID: 17973 (still running)
> While opening file "inetd.conf"
> dated: Thu Sep 2 16:00:45 1999
>
> (1) Another program may be editing the same file.
> If this is the case, quit this edit session to avoid having
> two different instances of the same file when making changes.
>
> (2) An edit session for this file crashed.
> If this is the case, use ":recover" or "vim -r inetd.conf"
> to recover the changes (see ":help recovery)".
> If you did this already, delete the swap file ".inetd.conf.swp"
> to avoid this message.
>
> "inetd.conf" 81 lines, 2995 characters
> Press RETURN or enter command to continue
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