On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:19 am, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 3/6/2003 2:12 AM, someone claiming to be Iraj Medifar wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > > > I wonder if anyone has experienced that RedHat 8.0 does not allow a user > > to edit his crontab. It looks strange that the same edit on another box > > with Mandrake 8.2 does work. > > Works for me, RH8.0 > > > In Mandrake, one opens a terminal and runs: > > > > export EDITOR=gedit > > crontab -e > > In RedHat 8.0, I just use > crontab -e > > I believe the default EDITOR is vim (or plain vi -- :wq saves and quits)
Thank you Joel, turns out vi does the trick! But here's what kind of baffles me. With RedHat 6.2, 7.0 and 7.1, I always switched to gedit to edit my crontab and never had a problem. In fact a well-known QUE manual on RedHat 6.2 suggested the use of gedit for those (like me) who didn't feel very comfortable with vi. In any event, I used vi and it worked and that's what matters. Thanks a lot again for the helpful hint. Iraj > > > Then follows by commands and saves the changes. That's it. > > > > In RedHat 8.0, the same action results in this message: "no changes made > > to crontab". You get the same message even when you log in as root and > > try to edit the user's crontab. > > Is this just your user, or other users, too. Can root edit his own crontab? > > > Has anyone else had the same experience with RedHat 8? Is there a > > solution? Am I forgetting something in RedHat? > > I'm with Joel on this, check your perms. > > HTH, > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users -- Iraj Medifar [Home - Linux Desk] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
