Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) Dear all, since the first time using crontab -, I can never change the crontab file anymore. crontab -e calls emacs, but cron just discarded any new modifications. The emacs saved the crontab.* into /tmp. What's wrong? Thanks. Try using another editor as Emacs is a GUI editor. This has nothing to do with emacs being a GUI editor (which it isn't, BTW, or not necessarily). This does have to do with the editor writing files in-place. I'm not sure if either the native or the Cygwin port of emacs does. That said, Thorsten did provide a good rule of thumb: most GUI editors, especially Windows ones, don't write files in place. Probably OT, but Emacs has several different ways to save files. This is for XEmacs, (as far as I remember) Emacs works the same way. See `file-precious-flag' This feature works by writing the new contents into a temporary file and then renaming the temporary file to replace the original. In this way, any I/O error in writing leaves the original untouched, and there is never any instant where the file is nonexistent. crontab -e expects the changes to be made in place, so try (setq file-precious-flag nil) If it works you could add this line as the first line of the crontab. ## -*- file-precious-flag: nil -*- -jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab
* Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) Dear all, since the first time using crontab -, I can never change the crontab file anymore. crontab -e calls emacs, but cron just discarded any new modifications. The emacs saved the crontab.* into /tmp. What's wrong? Thanks. Try using another editor as Emacs is a GUI editor. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: crontab: no changes made to crontab
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Thorsten Kampe wrote: * Michael Chen (2004-03-02 06:57 +0100) Dear all, since the first time using crontab -, I can never change the crontab file anymore. crontab -e calls emacs, but cron just discarded any new modifications. The emacs saved the crontab.* into /tmp. What's wrong? Thanks. Try using another editor as Emacs is a GUI editor. This has nothing to do with emacs being a GUI editor (which it isn't, BTW, or not necessarily). This does have to do with the editor writing files in-place. I'm not sure if either the native or the Cygwin port of emacs does. That said, Thorsten did provide a good rule of thumb: most GUI editors, especially Windows ones, don't write files in place. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
crontab: no changes made to crontab
Dear all, since the first time using crontab -, I can never change the crontab file anymore. crontab -e calls emacs, but cron just discarded any new modifications. The emacs saved the crontab.* into /tmp. What's wrong? Thanks. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
