whenever you open a file in vi it creates a swap file like the one
mentioned below <filename>.swp, and if for some reason you exit'd from the
file without closing the file, the swap file remains or else it gets
deleted automatically.
__Rupesh__
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Neeraj Manral 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
==>
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