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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting set EDITOR=vi -> default editor not setting for cron tab Post 92084 by aarora_98 on Wednesday 7th of December 2005 04:35:47 PM
Old 12-07-2005
set EDITOR=vi -> default editor not setting for cron tab

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.....

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////
$ set EDITOR=vi
$ echo $EDITOR

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

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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
 

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bcrontab(1)						      General Commands Manual						       bcrontab(1)

NAME
bcrontab - Manage users crontab files SYNOPSIS
bcrontab [ -u user ] file bcrontab [ -u user ] { -l | -r | -e } DESCRIPTION
bcrontab interfaces with the bcron-spool daemon to manage crontab files in the privileged spool directory. OPTIONS
-u user Tell bcron-spool that we are acting on behalf of the named user. bcron-spool will only accept the username if bcrontab is running as either root or the same user ID as the named user. -l List the cronab crontab to standard output. -r Remove the user's crontab. -e Edit the current crontab. ENVIRONMENT
VISUAL If this is set, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. EDITOR If $VISUAL is not set and this is, it is used as the editor to invoke to edit a crontab. If neither are set, /bin/vi is used. BCRON_SOCKET The path to the named socket used to communicate with bcron-spool. Defaults to /var/run/bcron-spool. LOGNAME USER These two variables are used, in order, to determine the user name invoking the program. One must be set if the -u option is not used. FILES
bcrontab tries to writes a temporary file into the current directory, and then into /tmp if that fails, in order to edit the current crontab. SEE ALSO
bcron-spool(8), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca> bcrontab(1)
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