In article <[email protected]>,
Robert Elz  <[email protected]> wrote:
>    Date:        Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:25:20 +0000
>    From:        [email protected]
>    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>
>
>  | I lose vi files by SSH problems, and I don't reboot the server, so I
>  | only found out about ancient virecover'd files a few months later.
>
>There is nothing wrong with you adding a "vi -r" or even virecover
>call to your .profile on a server which you use like that - in fact
>it is probably quite a reasonable thing to do (and perhaps even share
>the method in some doc somewhere.)
>
>It is unreasonable to inflict on people who don't want/need it, just
>because it happens to be useful to you.

Just set virecover=NO in /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf and have people
who want it turn it on manually from now on.

christos

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