Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Subject: Re: Rev: Problem with emacs: crontabs aren't getting installed Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 11:22:36 -0500 Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20021125210716.26399.qmail@server1.gisol.com> <20021125225917.GA16810@butch.jgcomp.com> <20021126160817.23252.qmail@server1.gisol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.47.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038327632 18388 64.47.34.2 (26 Nov 2002 16:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:20:32 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en trevin wrote: > Just to let everybody know, the above suggestion helped me find the real > culprit: emacs. emacs was not even exiting properly at all; the > /tmp/real_emacs_exit_status file never got written out. Also, the > /tmp/crontab.* files were never cleaned up. It appears that emacs > *kills* its parent when you exit. > So I downloaded and used the nano editor instead, and it works. It's > not crontab's fault; it's a bug in emacs. Would you try something for me please? Run (server-start) in a running emacs then set EDITOR=emacsclient and try editing your crontab. The file to be edited should pop up in your emacs. Edit it then do C-x# when you are done. Emacsclient will exit, but not emacs. I am curious what happens to the parent process in this case... Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/