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From: |
Han Boetes |
Subject: |
backup method |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:01:48 +0059 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
Hi,
The default backup method is mv and then create a new file. That's
nice if you really want to keep the timestamp intact. But if you
use emacs with crontab -e you remove the tmpfile and since the
filedescriptor is still open your update to your cron is lost --
without warning. It was pretty hard to discover why this happened.
So I would like to suggest to make backup by copying the default.
Perhaps it's also an idea to disable backups altogether if the
file is in /tmp
# Han
- backup method,
Han Boetes <=
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