From: Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com
To: cygwin@cygwin.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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