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# 8  
Old 05-22-2003
Do you receive any error messages as root? Did you try google's suggestion as root?
# 9  
Old 05-22-2003
Yupp....tried using googles suggestion, but nothing happens.
It looks like the changes are working. But when you look in the env. the EDITOR line has not changed. It still says EDITOR=VI and
not EDITOR=vi as i would like it to do.
# 10  
Old 05-22-2003
A possible alternative :

# crontab -l > [somefile]

Edit [somefile]

# crontab [user] [somefile]

Pretty sure that's right (bad memory)
# 11  
Old 05-22-2003
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Originally posted by dozy
Yupp....tried using googles suggestion, but nothing happens.
It looks like the changes are working. But when you look in the env. the EDITOR line has not changed. It still says EDITOR=VI and
not EDITOR=vi as i would like it to do.
"export EDITOR=vi" is ksh syntax. I'm guessing that root is using the Bourne shell. Try this:
EDITOR=vi export EDITOR
# 12  
Old 05-26-2003
Yupp...that did the trick..strange that they are using diffrent shells for diffrent users....
 
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