Re: preserving editor files
I also have the symptom reported by Jean-Frangois SIMON (misc, 177504, 8 Sept 2010): Peter N. M. Hansteen peter at bsdly.net writes: Jean-Frangois SIMON jfsimon1981 at 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: peter at 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. peter at 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 It is near 10 minutes pause in boot-up if the script has *anything* to process in /var/tmp/vi.recover/ - more than 5, closer to 10. The next thing in /etc/rc is the network daemon startup, and those diags don't appear on console or in /var/log/ until after /usr/libexec/vi.recover has waited out whatever it is waiting for. I'm running OpenBSD 5.0 (the amd release). Jean-Frangois wasn't. I see the script uses sendmail. I haven't configured that yet. ta Douglas
Re: preserving editor files
- Original Message - From: Jean-FranC'ois SIMON Sent: 09/08/10 08:50 PM To: openbsd-misc Subject: preserving editor files Hi All, 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 ? Thanks regards By me happens this when the machine on which is the ntpd is running, is not available, no network or hasnot booted up yet. Yes, it waits several minutes.
Re: preserving editor files
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.
