crontab: no changes made
Harig, Mark A.
maharig@idirect.net
Mon Oct 7 07:41:00 GMT 2002
Also, be careful not to change the ownership of the file
/var/cron/tab/<user>. SYSTEM needs to be the group owner, otherwise the
cron daemon will not accept it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Mayer [mailto:merkosh@hadiko.de]
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: crontab: no changes made
>
>
> Hi,
>
> When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi
> installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE
> environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set
>
> export EDITOR=emacs
>
> Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e.
> /tmp/cron.1900)
> However, when I close emacs (with or without saveing changes to the
> tmp file) crontab displays "crontab: no changes made to crontab".
>
> Where's the flaw?
>
> Thanks
> Uwe
>
>
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