I did get around this problem by using a different editor: export VISUAL=the crontab -e crontab: installing new crontab Thanks to everyone for their suggestions!
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grega Bremec Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Editing crontab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 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 | | What gives? Well, I suppose this symptom is not endemic only to Slackware then. I did experience it only on Slack so far though. If think the combination of vim and Dillon's cron 2.3.3 is the one to blame for this. Try using a different clone of vi, such as elvis, for editing the crontab: ~ $ env VISUAL=/usr/bin/vi crontab -e <user> (In case you're wondering how to differentiate between the two most common versions, Dillon's cron doesn't require the -u option to specify the user, whereas Vixie cron does.) Hope this helps. - -- ~ Grega Bremec ~ gregab at p0f dot net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEOPfbfu4IwuB3+XoRA/7eAJ0SRhyPXt8bk/QZfcneixZIMY50vACfa/Wm 3uDdUDL1O32jwqK13M0Fjpg= =cuXR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
