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
ls test; emacs test; echo $?
Betcha the exit value is non-zero.
Same here: it's zero.
Miark
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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
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:
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
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
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
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
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so that it runs my scan that adds nimda and code
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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
Frank
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The way I do it is to export the editor that I use
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