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Subject:	RE: crontab: no changes made
Date:	Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:39:53 -0400
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From:	"Harig, Mark A." <maharig AT idirect DOT net>
To:	"Uwe Mayer" <merkosh AT hadiko DOT de>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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 AT hadiko DOT de]
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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