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 Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:28:23 +0300 Message-Id: <200304201328.h3KDSNQP020459@beta.mvs.co.il> From: "Ehud Karni" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: lucianoav@gmx.net Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-9 In-reply-to: (message from Igor Pechtchanski on Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:37:28 -0400 (EDT)) Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies Reply-to: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:37:28 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > Yes, you can do that. That way programs like crontab will invoke your > editor when they need to edit a file. However, be aware that such > programs often expect certain behavior, for example, that the inode of the > file doesn't change when it's edited (i.e., the file is written in place). This can be easily done with a script (use its name for $EDITOR): #!/bin/sh cp $1 /temp/crontab/name # copy to a temp file /temp/crontab/name # edit it (e.g. with emacs) cat /temp/crontab/name > $1 # save as original file (and inode) Ehud. - -- Ehud Karni Tel: +972-3-7966-561 /"\ Mivtach - Simon Fax: +972-3-7966-667 \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Insurance agencies (USA) voice mail and X Against HTML Mail http://www.mvs.co.il FAX: 1-815-5509341 / \ mailto:ehud@unix.mvs.co.il Better Safe Than Sorry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: use http://www.keyserver.net/ to get my key (and others) iD8DBQE+oqB2LFvTvpjqOY0RAtTiAJwIwShkGciwC0Zp267kiKQJq5GKVgCeM35M Vo4xf5kI2XEg3rkL80K9QiI= =p65s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/