Re: [debian-knoppix] crontab problem
changed /etc/vim/vimrc and it worked fine, thanks.
pacho
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyril Chaboisseau" <Cyril.Chaboisseau@obs.coe.int>
To: <debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [debian-knoppix] crontab problem
> January 29 at 19:29, Pacho Baratta wrote:
> > who knows what's the problem with crontab?
> > when i do "crontab -u pippo -e" firstly it says "file saved" but then
"no
> > changes to crontab".
> > and if i try "crontab -l" it's empty
>
> I had the same problem with a plain Debian (unstable)
>
> the problem seems to be with vim that doesn't return the right value to
> crontab which doesn't realize the file has changed
>
> so then crontab just discard the change and doesn't install the new
> version
>
> one reason comes from the fact that there is a bug triggerred when /tmp
> is a symlink (to whatever directory somewhere else)
>
> here is another explanation about the syscall fstat64 and the
> interaction between crontab and vim :
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.3/0668.html
>
>
> to circumvent this "bug" :
>
> 1) if you change the EDITOR value with another one (nvi, emacs,
> whatever) it should work fine
>
> 2) just have /tmp as a real directory instead of a symlink (not easy
> with knoppix but could be done with a real installation)
>
> 3) another way to have vim to work with crontab is to have the "set
> compatible" option in /etc/vim/vimrc (or ~/.vimrc) instead of the Debian
> default "set nocompatible"
>
> this option could be set as default in knoppix (and maybe even in Debian
> but that's just another story)
>
>
> 'hope this helps
>
> --
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