Problems using vim to edit crontabs

[Gregory Nowak]

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In my case, emacs gave me no errors when saving the file, and there
were no errors in syslog either.

Greg


On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 01:00:18PM -0500, Thomas Stivers wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:10:49 PM -0500, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > Yes, I've seen what you describe, though it only happens to me if I
> > login as a normal user, do a su to become root so I can edit root's
> > crontab, and am using emacs, since my normal user's $EDITOR and
> > $VISUAL are set for emacs, but root's $EDITOR and $VISUAL are the
> > defaults (I.E. vi).
> 
> Do you get any sort of error message after you quit vi? How about in
> /var/log/syslog? If crontab says you have successfully updated your
> crontab when you haven't then the problem runs pretty deep, but it is
> probably simpler and the error message should give a clue.
> 
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> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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