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 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4417.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: RE: crontab: no changes made Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:39:53 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Harig, Mark A." To: "Uwe Mayer" , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id g97Ee6214857 Also, be careful not to change the ownership of the file /var/cron/tab/. 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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/