Re: Trouble with cron

[cothrige <cothrige@bellsouth.net>]

* Serban Udrea (S.Udrea@gsi.de) wrote:
> Hello,

Howdy,
 
> I am on Slackware 10.1 box right now and the man page for crontab states 
> that crontab -e will use  /usr/bin/vi or VISUAL. It does not mention 
> EDITOR. On this box if VISUAL is not set, vi is run. If I set VISUAL to 
> something else I get that.

That may be where I got the notion that vi would default.  I can just
remember that in the past vi, or Elvis in Slack I think, was always
what I got when I edited my crontab.  I suppose I had assumed I would
in Debian as well.

> Maybe strace can help to find out what crontab actually does to get emacs 
> started. And maybe first check that VISUAL is indeed unset.

I may just try strace.  Maybe it isn't a big deal, but I am a little
curious about why it is behaving oddly.

Thanks for the advice.

Patrick