On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 03:13:19PM -0400, Scully, William P wrote:
> Hopefully someone will have a suggestion on this. A user reports that
> when they log onto root and:
>
> crontab -e
>
> Changes made, even simply changes such as to comments, are lost after
> then exit the vi editor. The message shows:
>
> crontab: no changes made to crontab
>
> Logged on as root, I can edit the file, called
> /var/spool/cron/tabs/root, using vi. These changes are (not
> surprisingly) accepted. After making a change (adding a comment),
> crontab -e shows the newly-updated file. But I still cannot change it
> (for example, remove my newly-added comment) with the vi ":wq" command.
> If I use crontab -e to edit the file and ":w /root/asdf" I do see my
> changes in file /root/asdf. An lsattr command on the file in
> /var/spool/cron/tabs/root shows no attributes set (all hyphens). ls
> shows the file is R/W to owner alone. Even after I restart the server,
> the problem persists. The syntax of the existing cron file appears
> correct, in that "it's five tokens, plus the command to run". Even if I
> remove all records (excepts comments), the "no changes" message still
> occurs.
>
> What gives?
>
Is /tmp a symlink ? Try setting the following in the vimrc:
set backupskip=/tmp/*,/var/tmp/tmp/*,$TMPDIR/*,$TMP/*,$TEMP/*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
whatever your symlink points to
Karsten
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