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Re: [cobalt-users] OT: quick unix question
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] OT: quick unix question
- From: "Per M Knutsen" <per.knutsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed Sep 26 21:25:12 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> I want to edit, for example, sendmail.cf
> when I do a locate on it, it also finds "sendmail.cf~"
> which one do I want to edit? whats the difference between the two? A lot
of
> files seem to have this extra one with the ~ attached...
The one tailed by ~ is most likely a backup file created by emacs. In case
you mess up the original file, you can copy this file to get back to the
original.
You should edit the sendmail.cf file for changes to take effect.
Per M Knutsen
http://nethut.no/~pknutsen