Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:01:18 +0100 From: Raphael To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Crontab problems Message-ID: <20020914200118.GA1032@TOOS> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20020912195735 DOT GC1448 AT TOOS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: CYGWIN_NT-5.0 TOOS 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 01:00:20PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Raphael wrote: >=20 > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 05:53:24PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote: > > > > > > > --- Raphael wrote: > > > > > Hi guys/girls~, > > > > > > > > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my windows based editor. Using > > > > > it with > > > > > Pine or Mutt is not problem. Using it with Crontab -e gives a > > > > > sharing > > > > > violation error when I want to save the new file. > > > > > > > > > > Is this a crontab problem? > > > > > > > > Use vi.exe > > > > > > Most windows editors adopt a remove-and-recreate (or rename-and-recre= ate) > > > policy. This basically means that they will try to remove or rename = the > > > crontab-created file (which will fail, silently), and then create that > > > file over (which will fail since crontab has it open). This is where= your > > > sharing violation comes from. > > > > Ok, I can understand that explenation. > > > > > I've verified this with notepad and > > > editpad, but I'm sure most of the others will behave similarly. Thus, > > > looks like using a cygwin-based editor is your only option, unless yo= u can > > > find a windows one that writes the files in-place. If this creates o= ne > > > more convert for the vi camp, all the better. ;-) > > > > Don't think so, why should Cron not be able to act like Pine or Mutt. I > > guess the latter start opening the file in shared mode? >=20 > I don't know about mutt, but pine, IIRC, does not keep the file open while > it's being edited by an external editor. It re-opens the file afterwards, > which is why it doesn't care whether it's the same file, or a newly > created one. Hi Igor, But do you have any idea why Cron shouldn't be able to act the same? Kind Regards Raphael --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (Cygwin32) iD8DBQE9g5WOWEtPuWPcngsRAsRzAJ4/2PZg+QMyc0PmL+kjjXwJVAJJAgCdEKdb vBdLBMQMNNjHBsUaOLbgIhE= =L5x2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF-- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]