Re: Bug in crontab? Won't work here
How is set your visual editor ?
If you use vim, you need to use the -f option (no fork)
otherwise crontab will ever seen empty file.
Christophe
Le lun, 10 sep 2001 20:47:58, Anthony Campbell a écrit :
> On 10 Sep 2001, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * Anthony Campbell (a.campbell@doctors.org.uk) spake thusly:
> > > I'm using the current testing distribution. Crontab doesn't work for
> me;
> > > at least it won't create a new crontab file, either as user or as
> root
> > > (although it has removed my own crontab!).
> > >
> > > Is this a known bug or should I submit it?
> >
> > Obvious question: is your VISUAL (and/or EDITOR) set?
> > I'm on testing as well, and crontab -e creates new files just fine, as
> > root and as ordinary user.
> >
> > FWIW, I've seen this happen a couple of times on slowaris, but I never
> > bothered to investigate. Just touch /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<user>,
> and
> > then crontab -e will work (or at least it does for me).
> >
> > Dima
> > --
> > We're sysadmins. Sanity happens to other people. --
> Chris King
> >
> >
>
> No, the problem isn't with editing crontab. I can do this and save it,
> but when I exit from the editor it says that no changes have been made
> to the file so I'm back where I started. The rewritten crontab is saved
> to ~/tmp/ but then it just disappears. I know I could edit the file in
> /var/spool/cron/crontab/ but you are not supposed to do that.
>
> Anthony
>
>
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