greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) (05/28/90)
We've got a problem with expreserve: the normal operation of it under 386/ix don't work too well. It's supposed to be able to save editor files for recovery if the system goes down. The trouble is, editor temporary files are stored in /tmp, which is erased (as it should be) when the system comes back up. Isn't something somewhere supposed to feed these editor temporaries into expreserve to save them before nukeing /tmp when the system comes up?. Anyone know what is supposed to happen here?. thanks, Greyham. -- /* Greyham Stoney: Australia: (02) 428 6476 * * greyham@hades.oz - Ausonics Pty Ltd, Lane Cove, Sydney, Oz. */
omerzu@quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu) (06/01/90)
In article <696@hades.OZ> greyham@hades.OZ (Greyham Stoney) writes: >We've got a problem with expreserve: the normal operation of it under 386/ix >don't work too well. [...] >Isn't something somewhere supposed to feed these editor temporaries into >expreserve to save them before nukeing /tmp when the system comes up?. Well, you're right. In /etc/rc (or whatever it is called on your System) you will find some statements that erase /tmp. Immediately before doing this, the system should execute expreserve: ( cd /tmp ; /usr/lib/expreserve -a ) This will save all editor-temporaries to /usr/preserve and inform the owners by mail. Hope this helps. Thomas Omerzu, omerzu@quando.quantum.de