On Saturday 08 April 2006 4:09 pm, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2006-04-07 at 19:39 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
Interesting. Compare the mcedit versions (rpm -q mc) (mcedit --version)
I did, they are identical on both boxes.
Perhaps the 64 bit version was compiled with a diferent option.
... Also tried diff'ing the various config files in /usr/share/mc and in ~/.mc and couldn't find anything different that seemed pertinent.
Anything about creating a backup file while editing?
There's a setting, 'editor_option_save_mode', but it is set to 0 on both systems.
On the 64 bit box, mcedit creates a softlink in the current directory for the file being edited, that apparently causes the directory timestamp to update. On the 32 bit box, no softlink is created and I have no idea at all why they act differently.
If it doesn't create a softlink it means it makes no backup of the file, but changes it in place. That method does not alter the directory, it does not create nor delete files. I think only the inode might change.
I've resigned myself to simply doing a rccron restart.
Simply edit it again wit a diferent editor, like joe (aka jstar aka jmacs aka rjoe aka jpico), and save.
I'm way too old and set in my ways to change my habits ;) My fingers automatically type mcedit when I'm on the commandline, no thinking involved at all. Scott -- Aegroto, dum anima est, spes esse dicitur POPFile, the OpenSource EMail Classifier http://popfile.sourceforge.net/ Linux 2.6.11.4-21.11-default x86_64 SuSE Linux 9.3 (x86-64)