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From: omerzu@quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: How is expreserve supposed to work?.
Message-ID: <1533@quando.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 09:31:57 GMT
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Reply-To: omerzu@quando.UUCP (Thomas Omerzu)
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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