On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote:
> > > ... this allows me to think I am editing a personal crontab, but then
> > > when I save and quit, I get the following:
> > >
> > > wrote /tmp/crontab.XXXXa28090, 2 lines, 3 chars
> > > crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 1
>
> [...deleted...]
>
> > try :x - this saves and exits with a status of 0.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion; I tried it, but same result.
>
> BTW, I thought this might be some permissions problem. I tried changing
> the permissions on the /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory to 777, but
> no luck.
what are the permissons on your /tmp directory?
it definitely seems as if 'crontab -e' is failing because of vi's exit code.
the fact that vi only wrote "2 lines, 3 chars" seems suspicious too.
i get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:39:33] ~$ crontab -e
< edit file, :x to save & exit. >
crontab: installing new crontab
using :wq, :w followed by :q, or ZZ instead of :x makes no difference. the
only way i can make it fail is to press ^Z while editing the crontab, kill
the vi process, and then type fg. then i get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:44:55] ~$ crontab -e
[1]+ Stopped crontab -e
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:46:33] ~$ ps
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
388 4 S 0:00 -bash
4213 p3 S 0:01 bash
4517 p3 T 0:00 vi Makefile
9741 p6 S 0:00 bash
9784 p6 S 0:00 -bash
9813 p7 S 0:00 bash
23152 p0 S 2:33 pine
31986 p7 T 0:00 /usr/bin/vi /tmp/crontab.XXXXa31985
31987 p7 R 0:00 ps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:46:36] ~$ kill 31986
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [08:46:40] ~$ fg
crontab -e
Vim: Caught deadly signal TERM
Vim: Finished.
crontab: "/usr/bin/vi" exited with status 1
i'm running hamm (aka unstable), but have never had any problems with
personal crontabs.
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii cron 3.0pl1-39 management of regular background processing
ii vim 4.6-2 Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor
craig
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