Precaution for using vim-cmd

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This articles explains precaution for using vim-cmd.

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi

Resolution

In fact, vim-cmd is a symbolic link for hostd.

[root@localhost:~] ls -la /bin/vim-cmd 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            10 Apr  1  2025 /bin/vim-cmd -> /bin/hostd

If the hostd is unresponsive for any reason, vim-cmd won't work properly either. Be careful.