[25312] in Athena Bugs
Re: /var/preserve on linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Nov 13 12:21:49 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 12:16:57 -0500
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Google tells me that /var/preserve was historically used as an auto-save
location for editors, particularly vi and ex, but I think the versions
of those editors on Linux use /var/tmp/vi.recover instead. It is not
intended for direct use by users.
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:49, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
> If so, we should make /var/preserve on linux mode 1777 to
> allow users to do this.
Mucking with the permissions of native Red Hat directories would not be
wise.
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