Jean-Frangois SIMON <jfsimon1...@gmail.com> writes: > At start-up the OS stays several minutes on "preserving editor files". > > Could you please inform me what to do about this .... what is the system > then doing ? Is it normal ?
It's recovering vi's temporary files (from /var/tmp somewhere if memory serves), and it's a part of the normal startup sequence: pe...@deeperthought:~$ sudo grep preserving /etc/* /etc/rc: echo 'preserving editor files.'; /usr/libexec/vi.recover /etc/termcap:# eyeball, the translation was correct and perfectly information-preserving. pe...@deeperthought:~$ file /usr/libexec/vi.recover /usr/libexec/vi.recover: a /usr/bin/perl -w script text executable Several minutes sounds like a lot, was the last shutdown not a clean one? - P -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
