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Subject: Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:47:37 -0700
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>From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
>Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>Subject: Re: Help:Can not edit crontab becuase of vi not found
>Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:05:53 -0800
>
>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.
All right, you hit it right on.

"ls -l /usr/bin/vi" says 'ls: File or directory "/usr/bin/vi" is not found'. 
I am confused...because
1) I can run "/usr/bin/vi"
2) If I "cd  /usr/bin" and then "ls vi", it is there

I check the mount point, c:/cygwin/bin is mounted to /usr/bin, and both 
c:/cygwin/bin and /usr/bin are in $PATH.

I am totally lost, what could be wrong?

You mentioned runing cygcheck, I did that, "cygcheck -sv /usr/bin/vi", it 
returns "C:/cygwin/bin/vi - os=45841.30695 img=60008.34 sys=46070.30695" and 
a lot of other system information.

I am not sure what I am supposed to check, could you elaborate on that?

>
> >   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.
I run "man crontab", it says manpage is not installed. Is VISUAL a program?


>
>Brian
>

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