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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 18:12:23 +0200
From: George Lefter <george DOT lefter AT mkco DOT ro>
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To: Uwe Mayer <merkosh AT hadiko DOT de>
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Subject: Re: crontab: no changes made
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Uwe Mayer wrote:
> 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?

i have the same problem on slackware. both 8.0 and 8.1 have this 
problem: if i set EDITOR=vim, my changes are not saved. if i set 
EDITOR=elvis, all is ok. havent tried emacs..
i guess it's a problem with cron.



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