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From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found
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lin q wrote:

>   I wonder what the problem is, I can start vi by running, /usr/bin/vi.

What does "ls -l /usr/bin/vi" report?  And your cygcheck output would
have been helpful.

>   I also tried "export EDITRO=/usr/bin/vi" and "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim",
> neither one works.

I think it uses VISUAL.  Check the manpage of crontab.

Brian

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