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Subject: RE: crontab: no changes made
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:36:07 -0400
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I am guessing that you are running Windows NT.  This problem appears on
Windows NT, but not on Windows 2000.  It has been a problem for a long
time (over a year?).  I don't know what the solution to the problem is,
but a quick way to get around it is to edit your /var/cron/tabs/<user>
file directly.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Mayer [mailto:merkosh AT hadiko DOT de]
> Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 8:28 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: crontab: no changes made
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I start "crontab -e" it won't run, because I haven't vi
> installed. I remembered reading something about an EDITOR or VISIBLE
> environment variable, though I couldn't find it any more. Thus I set
> 
> export EDITOR=emacs
> 
> Then crontabs starts up emacs, editing a temporary file (i.e.
> /tmp/cron.1900)
> However, when I close emacs (with or without saveing changes to the
> tmp file) crontab displays "crontab: no changes made to crontab".
> 
> Where's the flaw?
> 
> Thanks
> Uwe
> 
> 
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