Hallo, I found the solution to the emacs problem discussed below:
Monday, October 7, 2002, 3:44:41 AM, you wrote: IP> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Uwe Mayer wrote: >> 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 IP> The correct name for the variable is VISUAL, although EDITOR also works. >> 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? IP> If you are running Cygwin emacs, make sure it's writing the file in place. IP> In a separate shell, check that the inode number of the temp file is the IP> same before and after emacs has written the changes (using 'ls -i'). IP> Igor George Lefter (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): In this case its no problem with cron. Igor was right. Bevore writing to a file emacs *renames* the old file to <filename>~ and stores the new buffer under the same name. I had a search on "info emacs" and under node "Backup" I found out that: > For most files, the variable `make-backup-files' determines whether > to make backup files. On most operating systems, its default value is > `t', so that Emacs does write backup files. So you could either turn off backups, > The default value of the `backup-enable-predicate' variable prevents > backup files being written for files in the directories used for > temporary files, specified by `temporary-file-directory' or > `small-temporary-file-directory'. check the "temporary-file-directory" variable in the *scratch* buffer: temporary-file-directory C-x C-e In my case it defaulted to "<something>/<something>/mydocu~1/temp". Which is IMHO an impractical default value. I added the following line to my .emacs file: (set 'temporary-file-directory "/tmp") Now it works! Harig, Mark A.(<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): I am useing Windows 2000, not NT. And what concerns the group and user ownership. I changed them temporaryly and started crontab. After editing the tab file with crontab the user and group membership were restored automatically to <user>:SYSTEM. Thanks for all your comments and suggestions! Ciao Uwe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
