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RE: crontab: no changes made
- From: "Harig, Mark A." <maharig at idirect dot net>
- To: "Uwe Mayer" <merkosh at hadiko dot de>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:36:07 -0400
- Subject: RE: crontab: no changes made
I am guessing that you are running Windows NT. This problem appears on
Windows NT, but not on Windows 2000. It has been a problem for a long
time (over a year?). I don't know what the solution to the problem is,
but a quick way to get around it is to edit your /var/cron/tabs/<user>
file directly.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Mayer [mailto:merkosh@hadiko.de]
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.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
>
>
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