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I've got a couple of FreeBSD servers that throw several copies of the following error on reboot:

On Wed Oct 10 15:13:16 2012, the user root was editing a file named /tmp/crontab.s00huOAZD2 on the machine server, when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to vi:

    vi -r /tmp/crontab.s00huOAZD2

However, nobody was editing anything (at least not in recent memory). I certainly don't want to recover whatever is in those files. I've turned on clear_tmp (on boot) and cleaned out the tmp directory manually as well. No change though, I get several copies of the above on every boot. Even if I boot, then reboot immediately. What's causing nvi to think I'm doing crontab editing and what's the best way to clean these out?

Brian Knoblauch
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Check the persistent temp directory /var/tmp/ for a Vi.recover directory.

HBruijn
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