[olug] crontab -e problems

[Brian Roberson]

crontab -l > somefile ; emacs somefile ; crontab somefile

or

export EDITOR=vi ; crontab -e ; export EDITOR=emacs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William E. Kempf" <wekempf at cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 10:00 AM
Subject: [olug] crontab -e problems


> I'm having a strange problem with crontab.  I'm running Mandrake 9.1.  My
> preferred editor is emacs, so I have EDITOR set to this.  When I run
> "crontab -e", crontab creates the temporary fine, emacs opens it, I can
> edit it, but when I save and exit crontab doesn't think it was edited, so
> nothing gets saved back to the actual crontab file.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas what might cause this, or how I could fix it/work
> around it?  This is quite annoying.
> 
> -- 
> William E. Kempf
> 
> 
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