Hi All,

I am running a script , working very fine on cmd prompt. The problem is that when I open do crontab -e even after setting editor to vi by
set EDITOR=vi it does not open a vi editor , rather it do as below.....

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$ set EDITOR=vi
$ echo $EDITOR

$ crontab -e
79
29 16 * * * /bin/sh /app/siebel/testdir/automate.sh
?
The crontab file was not changed.
$

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Even if i do ,

$vi crontab

it opens a vi editor for me with name crontab ,
where I can write the above line

29 16 * * * /bin/sh /app/siebel/testdir/automate.sh

and save . But it is not showing me the crontab job when I do

$crontab -l

Can some bdy help me for this ..

PS : I have also tried

$setenv EDITOR vi

but in vain, still getting no results. Really need your help for this.....

Thanks & Regards,
Aru

oops.............. even

$set EDITOR=vi
$export EDITOR

OR

$export EDITOR=vi

is also not working..... I feel sad. :-(

Help Plz......

Aru

Hi friends ,


I got the solution to my problem. i feel to discuss it in the form, so that others will be benifitted ...


At cmd prompt I just have to write two lines

EDITOR=vi;
export EDITOR


Now, crontab -e will open a vi editor for me. :-)


Chow.
Aru

I had the same problem, check and see if the VISUAL env. variable is set to something other than vi.

If so, then that's overriding the EDITOR variable.

Many ways to fix...


Add to your ~/.bash_profile (or /etc/profile, or /etc/profile.d/SOME_FILE)

I don't use bash

vi <=> vim :-??

please fo follwing change in .profile and save change:
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EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR
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