On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Tom <t...@limepepper.co.uk> wrote: > > The server intermittently zeroes out the files, either geany/gedit offers a > reload (which I have learned is a no-no) and the file reloaded is empty. I > thought it might be something to do with gtk temp files, but it is > replicable with vi or kate.
I can't help with what is going wrong, but vi will do your edit in a tmp file copy, then truncate and overwrite your original file so as to keep the original owner/modes which you might not be able to reproduce. So the truncate is normal but it should be followed by writing new contents. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com