Solaris

Hi Shadow21
very nice your solution,
many thanks.
thanks also Perderabo about "Your Rule"
and thanks too for everybody have been help me for my troubles.

regards,
srilinux

Hi,

I got same problem as srilinux.

I had experience on UNIX, but with Sun I tried on some servers but crontab -e have never worked.

one man suggested me to edit cron file at /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ , but after edited, we need to perform command $crontab filename to make it worked.

I also check /etc/cron.d/ , there is no cron.allow file, and also my user is not in cron.deny, but it still not work.

regards,
milo

From the man page: Try:
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
export EDITOR

hi Perderabo,

i performed commands as you suggested but it returned
peri@MPSAP1-hcm {4} EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi: Command not found

i tried to setenv by
setenv EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi
setenv export=EDITOR

then output of env is as:
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi=
export=EDITOR
i don't understand why there is "=" after EDITOR=/user/bin/vi in env

and output of crontab -e is:
peri@MPSAP1-hcm {5} crontab -e
sh: /usr/bin/vi=: not found
The crontab file was not changed.

i also put your two commands (with setenv before) into .cshrc but it had same result.

appreciate all your help.

i tried with bash, and it worked (after take a look at https://www.unix.com/showthread.php?t=33379)

peri@MPSAP1-hcm {13} bash
bash-2.03$ export EDITOR=vi
bash-2.03$ crontab -e

my current shell is csh.

thanks.

For csh try:
setenv EDITOR /usr/bin/vi

hi Perderabo,

I got critical problem would like your help in urgent.

after i tested commands you refered, and did some jobs (don't remember), i was kicked out and could not telnet to server.

i tried to console, and fould that some link files like home -> /opt/home/ were disappeared. That cause my account don't have home directory (it is /home/peri in passwd file). I created links and it is working fine now. But I don't know whether there are any other link files were deleted or not? .

my server is running important services right now. would u pls help this case. y could contact me in yahoo: longnguyenminh or skype: longnguyenminh

Thanks so much for your support.