Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-15 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 1:18 am, Andy Davidson wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop and have run into some oddities. The first is crontab. If I do 'crontab -e', it brings up my editor (emacs), but when I exit it, I get the message crontab: no changes made to crontab The

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-15 Thread Miark
ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Same here: it's zero. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-15 Thread Andy Davidson
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:07:39AM +, Richard Urwin wrote: This sounds like a two phase save problem. In order not to loose your work if there is a catastrophic crash, many editors save the edited file under a temporary name, then rename the original as a backup, and rename the saved

[newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-14 Thread Andy Davidson
I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop and have run into some oddities. The first is crontab. If I do 'crontab -e', it brings up my editor (emacs), but when I exit it, I get the message crontab: no changes made to crontab The only way I can create or change my crontab entry is to:

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-14 Thread Miark
Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. Miark On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:18:47 -0800 Andy Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-14 Thread Andy Davidson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. I just tried 'crontab -e' after changing my EDITOR shell

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-14 Thread Russ Kepler
On Friday 14 March 2003 09:08 pm, Andy Davidson wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:43:08PM -0500, Miark wrote: Although I can't explain why, I know that crontab -e has a problem with eMacs. I use MicroEmacs and experience the same thing. Hmm, I should have brought that up in Bugzilla. I

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-14 Thread Andy Davidson
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:22:04PM -0700, Russ Kepler wrote: This rings a bell for me. I ran into something like it and if it's similar it's the exit value from emacs - check by editing a file using ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Nope. It's zero. andy

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...

2001-10-03 Thread vadim
- Original Message - From: Ron Bouwhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work... so that it runs my scan that adds nimda and code red clients to my ipchains rules

RE: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...

2001-09-23 Thread Franki
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work... Crontab is working - what you are seeing is the vi editor Not my favorite editor in the world that's for sure. ;-) In order to be able to edit the file, press the insert key - you will see --INSERT-- at the bottom of the screen

RE: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work...

2001-09-23 Thread Keith Lynn
Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keith Lynn Sent: Sunday, 23 September 2001 9:59 PM To: Franki Cc: NEWBIE Mandrake List Subject: Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work... The way I do it is to export the editor that I use