On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:05:22PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

>Neeraj Manral rearranged electrons thusly:
>
>> while editing  vi /etc/inetd.conf  i get the following message .? How disd
>> this ".inetd.conf.swp"
>> get formed ? and what does it mean ...
> 
>Simple.  If your earlier vi session crashed (maybe your vi dumped core, or your
>telnet session to the box ended etc), then the partly-edited file will be saved
>in the temp directory.  

Not in temp directory. In the directory where he was editing the file.



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